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: 23 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $222k

This role $241k

$166k most similar roles pay here $285k

This role pays more than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $193,000–$250,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $241k versus about $222k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 35 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,800–$262,800 across 35 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Credit Insights

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Staff Software Engineer - Credit Insights joins the Credit Decisioning platform team to build cashflow based insights products that enable lenders to make holistic lending decisions. This role involves defining the future architecture of credit insights products and executing against an ambitious roadmap while collaborating with Product, Data Science, and Machine Learning teams to productionize new features. Key responsibilities include leading technical architecture for data fetching, online feature serving for API requests, and offline production pipelines for model training. The candidate will scale systems to handle significant load increases and mentor other engineers. Required skills include experience building and scaling backend products, technical leadership, and maintaining production systems that support machine learning models in both online and offline settings. The work focuses on solving credit underwriting challenges by providing insights into borrower cash flow data.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $224000 from 203 postings across 41 companies.

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Skills

Machine Learning Data Science API Feature Serving

What you'll do

Define the future architecture for credit insights products and execute against an ambitious product roadmap.
Lead technical execution for data fetching, online feature serving, and offline production pipelines.
Scale and evolve system architecture to handle a projected 100x increase in load.
Build and maintain production systems that support machine learning models in both online and offline settings.
Partner with Data Science and Machine Learning teams to productionize new insights for credit underwriting.
Develop tools and infrastructure to serve cashflow-based insights at a massive scale.
Mentor engineers and contribute to the development of an inclusive team culture.

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 in building and maintaining production systems that serve and support ML models in online and offline settings.
Experience working closely with data science or machine learning teams.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and leaders across the engineering function.
Experience working in the credit or lending space (preferred).

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