Experienced Design Engineer - Frontend Foundations
Plaid
Software Engineering, Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Nov 21, 2024
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 Frontend Foundations team is the team that owns core frontend tools and systems that affect every Frontend engineer at Plaid. They own Plaid’s design system (the tools and how it looks/feels in production), and frontend development standards at Plaid (including our build, deploy, and core frameworks).
The team works closely with all Frontend engineers, but most closely with the key Plaid frontends: Link (our primary bank linking product), the Plaid Dashboard, and Plaid.com.
Responsibilities
- You’ll collaborate closely with designers to co-design high-quality experiences, and own shipping it into production.
- You will build and productionize designs that incorporate animations and transitions.
- You’ll work with a team that owns the frontend design system that supports all other frontend engineers at Plaid, and work on projects across some of the highest visibility and most important frontends at Plaid.
- You will work closely with a highly iterative, cross-functional team (especially with Designers) to understand product requirements and legal constraints to build the next-generation core account linking experience for consumers and customers.
- You will partner with other teams across Plaid, working closely with other engineering teams as well as Product, Design, Data Science, and more to iterate on and productionize new products and improve existing products.
- You will own and lead projects, support other frontend engineers, advocate for technical and process changes, mentor more junior engineers, and follow best practices to increase overall system reliability.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience as an engineer working on frontend, with strong skills in at least one frontend framework (e.g. React).
- Attention to detail and an eye for high-quality UX.
- Excellent coding and testing skills.
- Experience as a project lead, working with other engineers, and other functions (product, design, data science) to drive execution.
- A portfolio of your past frontend work.
- [Nice-to-Have] Experience working with design tools, like Figma.
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.