Plaid is a financial infrastructure company founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey. The company provides APIs that enable applications to connect to financial institutions, access financial data, and facilitate payments. Plaid serves fintech companies, traditional financial institutions, and enterprises building consumer-facing financial applications. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York and London, Plaid has approximately 700 employees. As a privately held company backed by leading venture capital firms, Plaid focuses on democratizing access to financial data and reducing friction in connecting to the banking system. The company serves thousands of institutions globally and processed hundreds of billions in transaction volume, making it a critical infrastructure layer for modern fintech.
Plaid cultivates a technically rigorous, mission-driven culture focused on solving fundamental problems in financial infrastructure. The company attracts experienced engineers and product leaders with deep fintech expertise and values high-quality engineering and architectural thinking. Teams operate with autonomy on well-scoped problems in a collaborative environment. The culture emphasizes building trust in financial systems and moving at pace without sacrificing quality, though recent organizational restructuring has shaped a more cautious hiring and planning posture.
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