Experienced Software Engineer - Remember Me
Plaid
Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Jan 8, 2025
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, 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 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.
The Remember Me team is focused on improving conversion and enrollments for Plaid’s Remember Me network. We take on foundational efforts and run data-driven experiments to enhance the user experience. Whether we’re prototyping new features or scaling existing systems, we make sure every change boosts both performance and user satisfaction. Together, we contribute directly to Plaid’s top company goals by driving product growth and delivering meaningful results.
As a member of the Remember Me Growth team, you will lead development efforts to strengthen our Remember Me network. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and data science teams to identify growth opportunities and design experiments that validate hypotheses. You’ll set both a technical and cultural example by driving the team’s technical direction and mentoring junior engineers. Your efforts will directly contribute to Plaid’s top company goals.
Responsibilities
- Drive multi-quarter, multi-team technical projects in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Working on both the 0 to 1 stage and the 1 to 10 stage of problems.
- Engage in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standards for a high performing team
- Grow the team via mentorship and leadership.
- Designing and running experiments to optimize user conversion and enrollment rates for Remember Me.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams (product, design, data, and foundational teams) to ideate new features, streamline user flows, and identify areas for improvement.
- Contributing to strategic planning by helping shape the short-term and long-term direction of the team’s experiments and growth initiatives, with influence on how foundational teams build components to support the Growth team.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of delivering successful projects.
- 2+ years of experience as a project lead, working with other engineers, and other functions (product, design, data science) to drive execution.
- Strong product sense, customer empathy, and understanding of user needs.
- Passion for both prototyping early-stage products and scaling them into stable, high-quality solutions.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, including mentoring junior engineers.
- [Nice-to-have] Experience in growth engineering, running data-driven experiments, or user optimizations.
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com.