Home
Jobs
Plaid
Senior Staff Software Engineer, API & Developer Experience

Senior Staff Software Engineer, API & Developer Experience

Hybrid

San francisco, United states

$ 400,000 /year

Senior

Full Time

28-09-2025

Share this job:

Score my CV

Skills

Communication

Job Specifications

Plaid is on a mission to unlock financial freedom for everyone. The Developer Experience (DevX) team is dedicated to empowering developers to build the next generation of financial services. We own the surfaces that developers touch first -- from intuitive documentation and seamless onboarding to robust APIs, SDKs, and integration tools. Our mission is to make it fast, easy, and delightful for developers to integrate with Plaid, whether they're solo builders or large enterprise teams. We work closely across Product, Engineering, Design, and Developer Relations to champion the voice of the developer and shape a best-in-class platform experience.

Responsibilities

Support the entirety of Plaid's engineering team to scalably enable every engineer at Plaid to make high-quality changes to the Plaid API. Doing this through: developing systems, principles, and design patterns for the evolution of Plaid's API, including API versioning.
Lead the development of the next-generation Plaid API platform.
Collaborate across most customer-facing Engineering teams, Product, and Design, to ship intuitive, high-quality experiences.
Support the growth of other engineers at Plaid through mentorship, especially on APIs.
Serve as the technical lead for the Developer Experience area, supporting other engineers in supporting workflows like our Sandbox environment, and initiatives that help AI-first customers build agents with Plaid.

Qualifications

6-10+ years of engineering experience, preferably in a role where you owned an API before.
Experience working with developer platforms, API products, or technical ecosystems.
A passion for APIs -- you care deeply about developer experience and designing for longevity, functionality, and simplicity.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills -- you can clearly articulate design principles and customer understanding to other engineers, product managers, and executives.
Empathy for developers and a track record of shipping lovable experiences.

$226,800 - $400,000 a year

The target base salary for this position ranges from $226,800/year to $400,000/year. The target base salary will vary based on the job's location.

About the Company

Plaid is a data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. Plaid works with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment, 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 more than 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and... Know more