Plaid Staff Software Engineer at Plaid leading technical architecture and execution for credit insights products. Collaborates with Product, Data Science, and Machine Learning teams to build scalable systems supporting credit underwriting use cases.
Responsibilities
Leading technical architecture and execution across credit insights products: everything from data fetching and online feature serving for API requests, to offline production pipelines and tooling for model training.
Scaling and evolving the architecture through an expected ~100x increase in load from deterministic factors
Collaborating closely with Product, Data Science, and Machine Learning partners to develop and scale insights products that enable Credit underwriting use cases
Mentoring engineers and contributing to a strong, inclusive team culture.
Qualification
Strong technical leadership skills
Required
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, both in online and offline settings - as well as working closely with data science or ML teams
Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and with teams and leaders across the engineering function
[nice-to-have] Experience working in the credit or lending space
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