# Senior Software Engineer - AI Applications

**Company**: Plaid
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $209,880-$315,480 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## 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.

## Responsibilities

- Build across the stack. Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, as well as intuitive, high-quality frontend applications that bring those systems to life.

- Work with other AI engineers, software engineers and machine learning engineers to architect, design and implement GenAI-powered products and features

- Collaborate across functions to understand user needs, propose and implement AI-powered solutions where they’re expected to have the highest impact

- Design and execute rapid experiments to push the boundaries on potential business impact from emerging AI capabilities, with a focus on minimal viable testing approaches

- Balance creative exploration of possibilities with rigorous evaluation of technical feasibility, product potential and business impact

## Qualifications

- Experience building backend services and working with microservices or service-oriented architectures

- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries, with comfort building user-facing experiences

- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design and API development

- Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-powered products, iterating with real user feedback

- Practical experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, semantic search (vector databases and embeddings), agent orchestration frameworks, and evaluation/monitoring of open-ended tasks

- Experience building GenAI-powered product experiences, including streaming/SSE and common UX patterns

- Strong debugging and production monitoring experience

- Ability to deeply understand customer needs through user research and rapid experimentation; comfortable operating as a technical PM when needed

- Ability to balance divergent exploration with pragmatic execution, especially in 0 to 1 environments

- Deep curiosity and passion for building GenAI applications

## Nice to Have

- Experience training and deploying ML models in production, including fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific use cases

- Comfortable operating in privacy- and PII-sensitive environments, with experience applying appropriate compliance and data protection controls

## Skills

### Required
- backend services
- microservices
- service-oriented architectures
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- modern frontend frameworks
- LLM-powered products
- prompt engineering
- fine-tuning
- RAG
- semantic search
- agent orchestration frameworks
- evaluation/monitoring of open-ended tasks
- GenAI-powered product experiences
- streaming/SSE
- common UX patterns
- debugging
- production monitoring

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