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Plaid Link is the front door to modern financial experiences, securely connecting people's financial accounts to apps and services they trust. The Unified Link team is building a single onboarding platform for Plaid's products, enabling customers to integrate once through a single API and toggle additional products in the dashboard.
As Engineering Manager, you will lead approximately ten engineers through a major transformation: consolidating existing onboarding products, migrating Link's highest-traffic experiences to the new foundation without disruption, and continuously improving the Link experience. You'll partner closely with a Principal Engineer and the team's Tech Lead to set technical direction and sequence the migration, and collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams across Plaid to ensure the platform is easy to adopt and extend.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting team strategy and technical roadmap in partnership with the Tech Lead, balancing platform migration with ongoing Link improvements
- Driving team execution through planning, sprints, and delivery while maintaining high technical standards via hands-on design and code review involvement
- Hiring, managing, and developing engineers through goal setting, coaching, feedback, and performance management
- Partnering with Product, Design, and engineering teams to define clear interfaces and make the unified platform easy to adopt and extend
- Maintaining Link's reliability and health during the transition, making sound tradeoffs between new work and long-term system health
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer with a track record of designing and shipping complex, scalable systems
- 2+ years managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, and building teams
- Strong technical depth to dive into architecture and design details and credibly hold a high bar for the team
- Strong user empathy and ability to balance technical tradeoffs with product outcomes
- Nice to have: experience building consumer-facing products and/or product-led growth (PLG) dev tools
