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Plaid

Staff Software Engineer – Credit Insights

Plaid

. Define the future architecture of Credit insights products .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesLead💰 $207,600 - $273,600 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in defining and executing technical architecture for credit insights products, with a strong focus on building scalable backend systems that support machine learning models. Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and mentor engineering teams while fostering an inclusive team culture.

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Technical LeadershipBackend Product DevelopmentMachine Learning SupportCross-Functional CollaborationMentoring Engineers

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Hard Skills
Backend DevelopmentArchitecture DesignData FetchingAPI DevelopmentProduction Systems MaintenanceModel-Training ToolingScaling SystemsFeature Serving
Soft Skills
MentoringCollaborationTeam Culture Building
Industry Keywords
Credit InsightsLendingData ScienceMachine Learning

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define the future architecture of Credit insights products
  • Execute against an ambitious product roadmap
  • Lead technical architecture and execution across credit insights products
  • Build and scale data fetching, online feature serving for API requests, offline production pipelines, and model-training tooling
  • Scale and evolve architecture through an expected approximately 100x increase in load
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Machine Learning teams to develop and scale insights products for credit underwriting
  • Mentor engineers
  • Contribute to a strong, inclusive team culture

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong experience building and scaling backend products
  • Strong technical leadership skills, including mentoring peers, leading projects, and driving architectural decisions
  • Demonstrated success building and maintaining production systems that serve and support ML models in online and offline settings
  • Experience working closely with data science or machine learning teams
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and teams and leaders across engineering
  • Experience in the credit or lending space is nice to have
  • Ability to work from the Plaid office associated with this role at least 3 days per week

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity and/or commission, dependent on the position offered
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities
  • Diverse and inclusive team culture