Plaid20.03.2026

Staff Software Engineer - Europe

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Обязанности

01Set technical direction across Europe's product surface area, translating product strategy into clear engineering roadmaps with crisp scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
02Stay hands-on—owning high-leverage projects, spiking and prototyping to de-risk, or going deep on the hardest parts of projects others own, depending on the quarter.
03Own technical excellence for the team—setting and holding a high bar through design reviews, architectural decisions, and code quality.
04Partner closely with the EM and PM to identify opportunities, make tradeoffs, and keep the team focused on the highest-leverage work.
05Maintain a strong connection to US engineering and platform teams, ensuring Europe's requirements shape platform decisions and the team leverages shared infrastructure rather than building in isolation.

018+ years of software engineering experience, including operating as a technical lead on a product engineering team.
02Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
03Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems (four 9s) in production—understands the reliability and correctness bar required for critical infrastructure.
04Demonstrated track record of effective delegation—has scaled their impact by enabling senior engineers to own technical direction, not by doing everything themselves.
05Strong product engineering instinct—can take a product strategy and translate it into a crisp engineering roadmap with clear scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
06Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems in production.
07[Nice to have] Payments domain experience—has worked in payments infrastructure, processing, or a related domain.
08[Nice to have] Experience working across time zones with distributed engineering teams.
09[Nice to have] Fintech or financial infrastructure experience beyond payments (e.g., credit, lending, identity).
10[Nice to have] Familiarity with open banking APIs and bank connectivity patterns.

01Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position.