Summary
Jason Jia is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building scalable backend and platform systems that drive user growth and data-focused products. He has led cross-functional teams at Plaid—launching multiple credit and payments products, scaling core product ownership to account for the majority of org revenue, and delivering real-time pay-by-bank functionality and virtual accounts. At Pinterest he improved crawling, annotation pipelines, and notification systems, achieving substantial gains in precision, recall, speed, and notification deduplication. Now based in San Jose and currently leading engineering at Cardless, he combines hands-on systems design with product-minded metrics to deliver highly performant, user-friendly experiences. Collected early experience across AWS/DynamoDB intern work and finance internships, he brings both rigorous data sensitivity and operational discipline to product engineering.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Lynbrook High School
English, Chinese