Description
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.
Making data driven decisions is key to Plaid's culture. To support that, we need to scale our data systems while maintaining correct and complete data. We provide tooling and guidance to teams across engineering, product, and business and help them explore our data quickly and safely to get the data insights they need, which ultimately helps Plaid serve our customers more effectively.
Responsibilities
- Contribute towards the long-term technical roadmap for data-driven and machine learning iteration at Plaid
- Leading key data infrastructure projects such as improving ML development golden paths, implementing offline streaming solutions for data freshness, building net new ETL pipeline infrastructure, and evolving data warehouse or data lakehouse capabilities.
- Working with stakeholders in other teams and functions to define technical roadmaps for key backend systems and abstractions across Plaid.
- Debugging, troubleshooting, and reducing operational burden for our Data Platform.
- Growing the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Extensive hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong track record of delivering successful projects within the Data Infrastructure or Platform domain at similar or larger companies.
- Deep understanding of one of: ML Infrastructure systems, including Feature Stores, Training Infrastructure, Serving Infrastructure, and Model Monitoring OR Data Infrastructure systems, including Data Warehouses, Data Lakehouses, Apache Spark, Streaming Infrastructure, Workflow Orchestration.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration, communication, and project management skills, with proven ability to coordinate effectively.
- Proficiency in coding, testing, and system design, ensuring reliable and scalable solutions.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities, including experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers.
Additional Information
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.