Responsibilities
- Support the entirety of Plaid’s engineering team to scalably enable every engineer at Plaid to make high-quality changes to the Plaid API. Doing this through: developing systems, principles, and design patterns for the evolution of Plaid’s API, including API versioning.
- Lead the development of the next-generation Plaid API platform.
- Collaborate across most customer-facing Engineering teams, Product, and Design, to ship intuitive, high-quality experiences.
- Support the growth of other engineers at Plaid through mentorship, especially on APIs.
- Serve as the technical lead for the Developer Experience area, supporting other engineers in supporting workflows like our Sandbox environment, and initiatives that help AI-first customers build agents with Plaid.
Qualifications
- 6-10+ years of engineering experience, preferably in a role where you owned an API before.
- Experience working with developer platforms, API products, or technical ecosystems.
- A passion for APIs — you care deeply about developer experience and designing for longevity, functionality, and simplicity.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — you can clearly articulate design principles and customer understanding to other engineers, product managers, and executives.
- Empathy for developers and a track record of shipping lovable experiences.
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