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Plaid is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team building financial data products for the next generation of personal finance applications. You'll oversee a team of 7 engineers (early-career to senior) working on Plaid's Transactions, Investments, and Liabilities products, spanning foundational improvements to new capabilities for AI-powered financial experiences.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing a team of 7 engineers with clear expectations, coaching, and feedback
- Defining long-term team direction in partnership with Product, balancing new capabilities with reliability, data quality, and scale investments
- Participating in technical design and execution, guiding sound decisions across the product suite
- Driving projects from ambiguous customer problems through launch, adoption, and improvement
- Working directly with customers and go-to-market partners to shape solutions, explain tradeoffs, and set realistic commitments
- Building a team that delivers consistently and takes ownership of customer outcomes and system health
About Plaid: Founded in 2013, Plaid powers financial connectivity for millions of people and thousands of companies including Venmo, SoFi, Fortune 500 companies, and major banks. The company's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK, and Europe. Plaid is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including time as a Staff-level engineer before transitioning into management
- 1+ years of engineering management experience
- Deep experience designing and operating reliable backend systems and APIs at scale
- Track record of building and growing high-performing engineering teams, either as an engineer or a manager
- Strong product judgment, including shaping roadmaps and balancing new features with foundational investments
