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LeadFull-timePythonRailsAWSGo
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Technical Lead to join Plaid Europe, the open banking platform that makes international expansion one click away for fintechs. You will serve as the technical leader for Plaid's Europe engineering team, setting direction across a broad product surface area while staying hands-on in the codebase.
Key Responsibilities
- →Set technical direction across Europe's product surface area, translating product strategy into clear engineering roadmaps with crisp scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
- →Stay hands-on—owning high-leverage projects, spiking and prototyping to de-risk, or going deep on the hardest parts of projects others own, depending on the quarter.
- →Own technical excellence for the team—setting and holding a high bar through design reviews, architectural decisions, and code quality.
- →Partner closely with the EM and PM to identify opportunities, make tradeoffs, and keep the team focused on the highest-leverage work.
- →Maintain a strong connection to US engineering and platform teams, ensuring Europe's requirements shape platform decisions and the team leverages shared infrastructure rather than building in isolation.
Requirements
- ✓8+ years of software engineering experience, including operating as a technical lead on a product engineering team.
- ✓Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
- ✓Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems (four 9s) in production—understands the reliability and correctness bar required for critical infrastructure.
- ✓Demonstrated track record of effective delegation—has scaled their impact by enabling senior engineers to own technical direction, not by doing everything themselves.
- ✓Strong product engineering instinct—can take a product strategy and translate it into a crisp engineering roadmap with clear scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
- ✓Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems in production.
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