# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Plaid](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/plaid)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $208k – $307k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Backend Systems, Platform Engineering, LLMs, Generative AI, Observability, Code Generation Pipelines, Evaluation Frameworks, Self-Healing Infrastructure, Safety Architectures, Playwright
**Posted:** 2026-06-10

> Staff Software Engineer building autonomous AI systems for financial data extraction and integration repair. Hands-on role defining architecture, observability, and safety for production LLM-powered platforms.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define the technical direction and architecture for autonomous AI systems that create, repair, and improve financial institution integrations.
- Create novel observability, monitoring, and debugging platforms to provide engineers with deep visibility into the behavior, decisions, and performance of AI-powered systems.
- Build LLM-powered code generation pipelines that write, validate, and ship production code end-to-end with minimal human intervention.
- Design evaluation frameworks that measure correctness, reliability, and safety for non-deterministic systems operating at scale.
- Architect self-healing infrastructure that detects, diagnoses, and repairs itself in under 24 hours.
- Develop multi-layer safety architectures to ensure AI systems take the correct actions in production and degrade safely when uncertainty exists.
- Partner closely with engineering and product leaders to identify high-leverage automation opportunities and turn them into production systems.
- Raise the technical bar across the organization through mentorship, design reviews, and hands-on leadership.

## Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience with deep focus on backend and/or platform systems.
- Ability to balance divergent thinking (exploring possibilities) with convergent thinking (evaluating feasibility).
- Must be comfortable working hands-on directly in the codebase. This is a builder archetype position. You will spend considerable time designing and then building the actual systems you own.
- Must be comfortable moving fast, which means making trade-offs between technical excellence and the rapid deployment of working systems to validate whether approaches are fruitful.

## Nice to Haves
- Previous experience building production generative AI systems that customers interact with.
- Experience with browser automation, web automation, scraping, extraction systems, or tools such as Playwright, Stagehand, or similar frameworks.

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