The Senior Software Engineer will lead the technical strategy for Plaid’s web platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams, onboarding new engineers, and ensuring high technical standards.
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.
The web engineering team is responsible for developing and maintaining Plaid’s website, which is central to our brand and Growth strategies. We’re embarking on an exciting journey to reimagine our site and transform how we connect with customers, showcase our products, and communicate our story. The transformation is happening at all levels as we re-evaluate both the technical platform we’ve built and the customer experience. We’re a highly cross-functional group across Engineering, Product, Design, and Marketing that is looking for an engineering lead to join our team.
As an engineer for the team, you’ll have a central role in reshaping Plaid’s brand with deeply engaging, interactive and impactful web pages. You’ll have the opportunity to lead development on full pages and contribute to more templatized pages that are published via our CMS. You’ll achieve this alongside a team of engineers who value impact, user delight, and quality.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical strategy for our web platform, championing performance, availability, reliability, accessibility, user delight, and internal velocity. Additionally, contribute to executing against the strategy
- Collaborate closely with Marketing, Design, and Product to set strategy, roadmap, timelines
- Onboard new members to team and maintain a high standard for technical excellence
- Represent web needs in our overall frontend platform efforts focused on the build, deploy, and monitor experience
Qualifications
- 6+ years as an engineer on a website for a tech company with a product lead growth motion
- Extensive experience in both static and server-side websites
- Extensive experience leading the development of a robust web platform with a CMS
- Extensive experience with Javascript, React, or other modern UI frameworks/libraries
- Prior experience working on a stack with Google Analytics, Marketo, Segment
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS or similar
- Familiarity with technical SEO optimization
- Experience coaching mid and senior level engineers
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].
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Google Analytics
JavaScript
Marketo
React
Segment
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