Staff Software Engineer Europe
Summary
Technical leader for Plaid’s Europe engineering team, setting direction, owning high-impact projects, and maintaining code quality while collaborating with product and platform teams.
You will serve as the technical leader for the Europe engineering team, setting direction across its product surface while remaining hands-on. You will translate product strategy into engineering roadmaps, lead high-leverage projects, uphold architectural and code quality standards, partner with engineering and product leaders, and connect with platform teams.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction across Europe's product surface area
- Translate product strategy into engineering roadmaps
- Own high-leverage technical projects
- Prototype to reduce project risk
- Set standards through design reviews and architectural decisions
- Maintain code quality
- Partner with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager
- Connect with US engineering and platform teams
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Technical leadership experience on a product engineering team
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages
- Experience operating and scaling high-availability production systems
- Experience with delegation
- Product engineering experience
- Payments domain experience
- Experience working across time zones
- Fintech or financial infrastructure experience
- Familiarity with open banking APIs and bank connectivity patterns
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)