Sales Engineer

Join Plaid Europe as a Sales Engineer, where you'll be a technical lead across the region's sales team. You'll partner with Account Executives, run technical discovery, design solutions, and deliver tailored demonstrations. You'll also help build the Sales Engineering function in Europe and translate customer feedback into structured product insight. Enjoy a vibrant office environment, competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and lifestyle perks.

Technical lead across the sales team, partnering with Account Executives from the first technical conversation through proof of concept to signature.

We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description

About Plaid

Help build the Sales Engineering function in Europe, from the demo environments, sample apps, discovery frameworks, and integration playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Run technical discovery, design solutions, and demo and prove Plaid’s products to engineers and commercial buyers.

Requirements

• Willingness and ability to travel across the UK and Europe up to 25% of the time
• Hands-on understanding of APIs and web and mobile integration, including REST, OAuth, webhooks, JSON, and SDKs, with the ability to build and debug a demo in JavaScript, Python, or similar
• A self-starter who’s comfortable building in a growing region with a globally distributed team
• Experience working in, or selling to, fintech or financial services in the UK or EU
• Ability to move between deep technical conversations and business value conversations with different audiences
• 4+ years in a customer-facing technical role, such as sales engineering, solutions, implementation, or customer engineering, ideally at an API platform
• A consultative approach, strong customer empathy, and clear communication skills
• Knowledge of open banking, including UK Open Banking, PSD2/PSD3, AIS/PIS, and VRP
• Domain depth in payments, identity verification, or credit and underwriting
• A formal technical background or prior software engineering experience
• Fluency in a second European language