Plaid
Senior Software Engineer - AI Tooling
San Francisco HQ · Senior
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About the role
- We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years.
- 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
- Design, build, and operate internal tools and platform capabilities for high-leverage non-engineering workflows
- Build with strong product judgment, balancing flexibility with clear boundaries between what belongs in Retool, Scaffold, and a new AI-native internal tool surface
- Partner with Security, Infrastructure, and internal stakeholder teams to ship systems that are reliable in production
- Own systems end-to-end, including implementation, rollout, support, and iterative improvement
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Hands-on experience using AI-powered development tools, agents, or automation
- Strong experience building and operating production systems
- Experience building internal tools, platforms, or workflow software
- Strong product judgment and communication in ambiguous spaces
- Strong builder mindset; comfortable creating the first version of a product surface that does not yet have a clear industry template
Nice to have
- Experience with developer tooling, internal platforms, or infra-adjacent systems
- Experience with auth, service accounts, constrained runtimes, or internal security boundaries
- Exposure to agentic workflows, automation, or AI-enabled internal applications
- 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.
- Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.
- 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.
Skills
- Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life.
- Plaid's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe.
- Our biggest opportunity isn't just better tools for engineers, it's extending AI-native internal tooling to the rest of Plaid.
- Tools built for engineers assume things non-engineers don't have:
Compensation
- Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered.
Company info
- Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.
- We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
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