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, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, from reliable backend services and APIs to intuitive applications that bring those systems to life. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship products that make financial services more accessible and transparent. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, grow quickly, and see their work reach millions of users. Responsibilities: System Design & Development: Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend or fullstack systems and APIs that power Plaid’s products. Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define and deliver features that solve real customer problems. Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code. Participate in reviews to maintain high engineering standards. Testing & Debugging: Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues in production environments. Continuo
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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. Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, from reliable backend services and APIs to intuitive applications that bring those systems to life. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship products that make financial services more accessible and transparent. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, grow quickly, and see their work reach millions of users. Responsibilities: System Design & Development: Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend or fullstack systems and APIs that power Plaid’s products. Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define and deliver features that solve real customer problems. Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code. Participate in reviews to maintain high engineering standards. Testing & Debugging: Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues in production environments. Continuous Improvement: Con
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. Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, from reliable backend services and APIs to intuitive applications that bring those systems to life. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship products that make financial services more accessible and transparent. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, grow quickly, and see their work reach millions of users. Responsibilities: System Design & Development: Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend or fullstack systems and APIs that power Plaid’s products. Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define and deliver features that solve real customer problems. Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code. Participate in reviews to maintain high engineering standards. Testing & Debugging: Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues in production environments. Continuous Improvement: Con
About the Team OpenAI’s API Platform organization builds the products and infrastructure that help first-party and third-party developers build with OpenAI models. We ship the API primitives, tools, SDKs, documentation, playgrounds, and platform experiences that make OpenAI’s capabilities reliable, understandable, and useful in production. The API Experience team is focused on the end-to-end developer experience for the OpenAI API. We own the surfaces developers touch every day: docs, SDKs, the Playground, examples, onboarding flows, and the systems that help developers go from first request to production deployment quickly and confidently. About the Role We’re looking for full stack and frontend engineers to help define and build the next generation of OpenAI’s developer experience. In this role, you’ll work across frontend product surfaces, backend systems, SDK and documentation pipelines, and API workflows that serve millions of developers and companies. You’ll partner closely with product, design, research, API engineering, and developer-facing teams to make complex AI capabilities simple to understand, easy to test, and safe to launch in real-world applications. This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who cares deeply about craft, developer empathy, reliability, and product velocity. In this role, you will: Build and scale developer-facing products including the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools. Own full stack projects end to end, from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration. Improve the systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, docs, guides, and developer examples. Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers in a clear, usable way. Use developer feedback, product analytics, and direct customer insight to identif
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About Ema Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs. We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale. Who are you? We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Ema team. You are passionate about designing and developing maintainable software applications. You are a creative problem solver who thrives in ambiguity and can make abstract problems concrete. Most importantly, you are excited to be part of a mission-oriented, fast-paced, high-growth startup that can create a lasting impact. You will: Develop and maintain enterprise software applications, including API, data, application, and service development Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code by employing a test-driven development process. Build scalable and reliable back-end systems using languages like Go and Python Develop and maintain APIs using REST and gRPC Build and maintain scalable and extensible data schemas using PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, etc. Contribute to front-end interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks such as React or Angular Ensure that applications are secure and adhere to industry best practices Continuously improve software development processes and practices Ideally, you'd have: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. At least 4 years of relevant work experience. Solid back
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. Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, from reliable backend services and APIs to intuitive applications that bring those systems to life. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship products that make financial services more accessible and transparent. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, grow quickly, and see their work reach millions of users. Responsibilities: Design & Development: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability. Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define and implement new features that meet product and customer needs. Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and efficient code. Testing & Debugging: Develop automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of the codebase. Troubleshoot and resolve issues. Engage in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standard
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. Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, from reliable backend services and APIs to intuitive applications that bring those systems to life. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship products that make financial services more accessible and transparent. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, grow quickly, and see their work reach millions of users. Responsibilities: Design & Development: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability. Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define and implement new features that meet product and customer needs. Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and efficient code. Testing & Debugging: Develop automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of the codebase. Troubleshoot and resolve issues. Engage in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standard
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. Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, from reliable backend services and APIs to intuitive applications that bring those systems to life. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship products that make financial services more accessible and transparent. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, grow quickly, and see their work reach millions of users. Responsibilities: Design & Development: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability. Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define and implement new features that meet product and customer needs. Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and efficient code. Testing & Debugging: Develop automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of the codebase. Troubleshoot and resolve issues. Engage in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standard
About the Team The Plugin Developer Platform team builds the APIs, SDKs, and tools that let people extend ChatGPT and Codex. We work on plugins, connectors, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and interactive apps. We want anyone to be able to turn a useful workflow into a plugin, share it, and have other people use it. A plugin can package instructions and skills with connections to the tools and data it needs. Our work covers plugin creation and publishing, the systems that run plugins across our products, and open standards that developers can build on. About the Role We’re looking for platform-minded engineers who know what it takes to build a platform developers want to use. You’ll work across developer-facing interfaces, APIs, and backend systems. You’ll own features from the first developer conversation through implementation and release. You’ll talk directly with developers, partners, and the open-source community. Their experience will inform the APIs and abstractions you design, the problems you prioritize, and the tradeoffs you make. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. What You’ll Do Design and ship APIs, SDKs, and services that developers use to extend ChatGPT and Codex. Make plugins easier to create, test, publish, update, and share. Improve compatibility and consistency across ChatGPT and Codex, including interactive app experiences. Contribute to MCP and other open standards, bringing practical developer needs into their design. Work with developers and partners to understand recurring problems and improve the platform, tooling, and documentation. Work with Product, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety on permissions, compatibility, and safe, reliable execution. You Might Thrive Here If You Have built software that other developers use. Your experience might include an open-source project, an API or SDK, a developer platform, internal too
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to architect and build backend systems that enforce data privacy and automate compliance at scale. You’ll work closely with product, infrastructure, security, and legal teams to embed privacy-by-design into our data and access layers. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for an experienced engineer who is passionate about protecting user data while enabling innovation. What You’ll Do Design, build, and operate backend services that enforce policy-driven data access, lifecycle controls, and privacy protections. Develop distributed authorization and identity-aware enforcement mechanisms integrated directly into data services and control planes. Implement auditability, policy hooks, and enforcement observability to ensure compliance is continuously verifiable. Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance to convert privacy requirements into scalable technical designs and developer-friendly APIs. Harden data platforms and backend services through schema-level controls and data handling constraints by default. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistent enforcement across systems while minimizing duplicated implementations. Contribute patterns, libraries, and education that elevate trustworthy data access patterns across the organization. You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have 5+ years of industry experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production. Strong software engineering fundamentals , with fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, C++, Java). Experience with distributed authorization, RBAC/ACL systems, encryption-based access, or policy engines. Familiarity with global privacy regulations and their architectural implications. Ability to influence and collaborate with teams across legal, compliance, product, and engineering. A bias toward practical, impactful solutions that balance privacy protections with product needs. Nice to Have Experience wi
About the Team Customer education helps customers and partners build the practical skills and confidence to use AI and OpenAI products safely and effectively. The team focuses on role- and skill-based learning paths, practical content, and product experiences that accelerate learning in the workplace. It brings together learning and enablement expertise, field insight, product signals, and measurement to improve learner and business outcomes. Together, these experiences will help enterprise users build practical AI skills, apply them with confidence in their work, and demonstrate what they can do. Employers will gain a clearer view of workforce skills and progress, helping them recognize capability, focus development where it matters most, and build confidence in workforce readiness. About the Role We’re looking for a full-stack engineer to define and build a new class of learning experiences. This is an early-stage product area where technical judgment, product sense, and learner empathy are critical. You will be setting a technical vision for how people use AI to learn how to use AI, safely and beneficially. This is a hands-on, 0-1 product engineering role with broad technical and product ownership. You’ll set direction, make foundational decisions, and ship the first versions of experiences that can grow into the default way people learn at work. You will drive full-stack product experiences end to end, from prototype through launch, instrumentation, iteration, and production hardening. The work spans interaction design, frontend implementation, backend APIs and services, learner state, content and runtime integration, telemetry, evaluation, reliability, safety, accessibility, and launch readiness. You’ll work closely with our education, GTM, and engineering teams to translate how people learn into products people want to use. bring role- and skill-based learning paths into the product, designing coaching, feedback, and adaptive support which responds to each lea
The Senior Software Engineer is a senior individual contributor who drives the technical direction of backend services in Go and front-end applications in Vue.js that power the Topgolf guest experience across our venues and digital products. This role owns architecture and design decisions across the stack and influences engineering standards through technical guidance and mentorship, not formal people management. Job Responsibilities Own and implement architecture and technical design decisions for backend services and APIs in Go across one or more product areas Design and build complex, scalable front-end applications and components using Vue.js Define and evolve API contracts and integration patterns (REST and/or event-driven) across services Set and drive automated testing strategy and code quality standards across the stack Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing Diagnose and resolve complex, cross-service production issues, improving logging, monitoring, and alerting practices Champion spec-driven development, authoring and reviewing technical specs and design docs for cross-team initiatives Evaluate and drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) to improve engineering velocity and code quality Critical Skills & Experience Requirements Professional software engineering experience Building backend services in Go Building front-end applications with Vue.js Working with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) in a professional setting Providing technical mentorship or driving cross-team technical initiatives BENEFITS Free Play & 1/2 price food! Health, dental, vision, 401(k) team member match, free mental well-being platform – and that
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our modernization team focused on transforming the legacy CVS pharmacy systems into a cutting-edge, cloud-native platform. As part of the team, you will play a crucial role in designing and developing microservices that drive the modernization of critical patient and drug domains. You will work on integrating cloud-native solutions, enhancing performance, and ensuring seamless operation within a highly scalable and secure environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in backend development, system design, and a strong understanding of cloud-native software engineering principles. Responsibilities: · Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to support analytics, ML, and operational reporting · Develop robust data ingestion, transformation, and integration workflows using Python, SQL, and modern data engineering frameworks · Build and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines leveraging technologies such as Kafka (or similar pub/sub tools) · Work with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, including Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner and Cloud Functions · Develop and manage data APIs and interfaces (REST and GraphQL) to enable high-performance data access across microservices · Implement CI/CD automation fo
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, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems and experiences that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, building scalable backend services and APIs while also crafting intuitive, high-quality frontend experiences that bring those systems to life. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy switching between backend problem-solving and frontend user experience work, and who are excited to grow their impact across both. You will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to ship products that are reliable, secure, and delightful to use. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, contribute to architectural decisions, and see their work reach millions of users. Responsibilities: Build across the stack. Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, as well as intuitive, high-quality frontend applications that bring those systems to life. Collaborate cross-functionally. Partner closely with product managers and designers to define
Become a part of our caring community Most AI engineering jobs are a thin wrapper around a model API. This role is different. We build the platform that transforms millions of clinical documents into trusted, actionable data. Our systems use large language models (LLMs) to read medical records, extract structured facts, answer complex questions with citations back to the source document, and route ambiguous cases to human experts for review. Our users make decisions that impact real healthcare outcomes, so “good enough” is not good enough. Building AI systems that are accurate, reliable, auditable, and scalable is at the core of this role. As a Senior AI Applied Engineer, you will design, build, deploy, and operate production AI systems used at scale within one of the largest health insurers in the United States. You will own solutions end-to-end, from user experience and APIs to model orchestration, evaluation frameworks, infrastructure, and production operations. Why Join Us Build production AI systems where LLMs are in the critical path, not just demos or proofs of concept. Work on extraction, retrieval, agentic workflows, and human-review systems that process real healthcare data at scale. Own projects end-to-end across frontend, backend, AI orchestration, infrastructure, deployment, and operations. Solve challenging problems around accuracy, explainability, traceability, and reliability in regulated environments. Ship quickly in a small, high-impact team that embraces AI-assisted development and rigorous quality standards. Build systems that continuously improve through expert feedback, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop workflows. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and deploy full-stack AI-powered application
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