Plaid developer jobs, salaries & tech stack

How Plaid hires

Read from its live adverts and compared with today's UK IT market.

Plaid is advertising 5 live technology roles on its own careers page, mostly in it leadership & management, and has been hiring technology staff since at least August 2026.

Every role is based in London.

60% of Plaid's roles are advertised as fully remote, against 28% across the UK IT market — noticeably more remote-friendly than most employers.

Plaid does not publish salaries in its adverts.

The technologies that appear most often in its adverts are Machine Learning, Python and SQL.

Machine Learning features in 100% of Plaid's roles, against 11% of UK IT roles overall — a Machine Learning shop more than most.

Most of its roles are senior or lead level; it is hiring experience rather than training it.

In Plaid's own words

From its advert for Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI | Multiple Locations.

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI Data San Francisco HQ, Seattle Office, New York City Office Full-time Apply 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., Lond...

Live roles at Plaid

Detected on the employer's own careers page; each links to the full listing.

What they hire for

Technologies

Where

Seniority