Staff Software Engineer - AI Applications

Plaid

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San Francisco HQ, US Posted 60 days ago $228,360–$337,260 / year
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TL;DR

As a Staff Software Engineer at Plaid, you will join the AI Applications team as one of its founding members to drive the integration of AI into financial services. Your primary responsibilities include designing and developing scalable backend services and APIs for GenAI-powered products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement high-impact solutions, and conducting rapid experiments to explore new business opportunities. You will work closely with other engineers to architect systems that enable seamless conversational interfaces and robust trust layers for agentic commerce. Key skills required include hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and semantic search, as well as strong debugging and monitoring capabilities in production environments. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI in FinTech by addressing complex business challenges at scale.

Skills

LLMs Prompt engineering Fine-tuning RAG Semantic search Vector database Embedding models Agent orchestration framework Evaluation and monitoring Streaming SSE Microservices Backend services Debugging Monitoring HTML CSS JavaScript Frontend frameworks UX design patterns

What you'll do

  • Develop and evolve integration patterns for Plaid with AI providers.
  • Redefine seamless embedding of Plaid’s consumer link experience in conversational interfaces.
  • Architect a trust layer for agentic commerce to become an industry standard.
  • Implement next-step improvements in homegrown customer support agents using multi-turn systems.
  • Extend agentic system to cover critical parts of the customer journey with high ROI.
  • Design and execute rapid experiments to explore potential business impacts from AI capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • Experience building backend services and working with microservices or service-oriented architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs to build products, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and semantic search.
  • Strong debugging and monitoring skills for production systems.
  • Ability to understand customer needs through user research and rapid experimentation.
  • Expertise in designing and executing experiments to evaluate technical feasibility and business impact.
  • Passionate about working in the GenAI applications space.

Market check

Salary context

This $228,360–$337,260 range sits above 99% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$143,000–$244,500

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$165,000–$214,625

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Plaid

Plaid is a financial technology company that builds a data network powering digital finance applications, enabling consumers to securely connect their financial accounts to apps and services. Industry: Financial Technology & Data Infrastructure

Plaid currently has 127 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $186,000–$262,800 across 127 roles with salary data.

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