Staff Software Engineer, Credit Insights

Plaid

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$207,600–$273,600 / yr
Posted
20 days ago
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Above market

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This role $241k
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This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $186,425–$238,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $241k versus about $212k for comparable roles.

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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 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,800–$262,800 across 73 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Credit Insights

JOB TITLE: Staff Software Engineer - Credit Insights The Staff Software Engineer - Credit Insights joins the Credit Decisioning platform team to build cashflow based insights products for lenders. This role involves defining the future architecture and executing an ambitious product roadmap to enable more holistic lending decisions. Key responsibilities include leading technical architecture for data fetching, online feature serving for API requests, and offline production pipelines for model training. The engineer will scale systems to handle a 100x increase in load while collaborating with Product, Data Science, and Machine Learning partners. Required skills include experience building and scaling backend products, technical leadership, and maintaining production systems that support ML models in online and offline settings. The work focuses on supporting cash flow into the credit underwriting process.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $216000 from 270 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead technical architecture and execution for credit insights products, including data fetching and online feature serving.
  • Build and maintain production systems that support machine learning models in both online and offline settings.
  • Scale and evolve system architecture to handle a projected 100x increase in load.
  • Develop and productionize new insights that enable customers to make holistic lending decisions.
  • Execute against an ambitious product roadmap for the Credit Decisioning platform.
  • Manage offline production pipelines and tooling required for model training.
  • Mentor engineers and drive architectural decisions across the engineering function.

What we're looking for

  • Strong experience building and scaling backend products.
  • Strong technical leadership skills, including mentoring peers, leading projects, and driving architectural decisions.
  • Demonstrated success building and maintaining production systems that serve and support ML models in online and offline settings.
  • Experience working closely with data science or ML teams.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and with teams and leaders across the engineering function.
  • Experience working in the credit or lending space (preferred).

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