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Staff Software Engineer - AI Applications

Plaid · San Francisco HQ · Remote

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About Plaid

Backed by Index, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.

About the role

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

What they're looking for

  • The explosive growth in model intelligence and increasing relevance for enterprise tasks offer a unique opportunity for Plaid to rethink from the ground up how we operate and interact with our customers for the most optimal experience
  • This is just the beginning and there is so much more we could do
  • Experience building backend services and working with microservices or service-oriented architectures
  • Hands-on experience working with LLMs to build products and shipping them to product with iterating with real user feedback - including but not limited to:
  • Prompt engineering
  • Fine-tuning
More about this role

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. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.

AI and intelligent systems are driving the fifth paradigm shift, following previous technological revolutions like mainframes, personal computers, the internet, and mobile devices. We believe, in the foreseeable future, AI will revolutionize the FinTech industry - from how consumers understand and manage their finances, to how developers build applications and how all companies operate. The...

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