Experienced Software Engineering - Identity Verification

At Plaid our Identity Verification (IDV) team is at the forefront of building innovative solutions that enhance user onboarding processes for our customers. We're responsible for a suite of products including tools for KYC checks AML screening and fraud prevention. Our mission is to streamline the onboarding experience making it faster more secure and less susceptible to fraud. We leverage technology like machine learning fraud prevention models to keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible in identity verification.

As an engineer on the team you will deliver highly impactful changes to our core systems by collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to design plan develop and launch scalable solutions to grow the Identity Verification products at Plaid. You’d be joining a team of fullstack engineers who are distributed across the US. The team values engineers who exhibit high ownership of their work constantly strive to make things better are detail oriented and genuinely love the craft.

Responsibilities

• Build systems with impact: your work will touch tens of millions of end-users the best applications in FinTech and major financial institutions

• Collaborate across teams and functions to deliver key initiatives

• Work across the entire stack when needed

• Partner closely with engineering leadership to define the roadmap

• Uphold technical craft

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience

• Experience leading and designing projects end to end

• Strong generalist excited to work with a variety of tools

• High ownership - must be able to step up and own their own success

• Impact driven. You understand that building the right tools and systems can impact millions of users.

• Pragmatism. Someone who actively considers the fine balance between shipping speed and perfection

• Adaptability. Most of our engineers work across the entire stack

• [nice to have] Experience with Heroku AWS Elasticsearch Ruby or Typescript

$162000 - $243000 a year

Target base Salary for this role is $162000 - $243000 per year. Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan including medical dental vision and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position candidate's work experience and skillset and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.