Engineering Manager, Plaid
Money Movement & Partnerships
$193.3-329.4k
1-5 days a week in office
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Be an early applicant
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$193.3-329.4k
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of engineering management experience with significant experience as a software engineer
- Experience owning a production product and working with a product manager and/or business partners to drive business impact
- Deep experience with full-stack architecture and systems
- Track record of building and growing high performing engineering teams
What the job involves
- You will manage a team of engineers who work on building and maintaining the Transfer and Partnerships product suite and underlying systems
- You’ll collaborate with your product counterparts to define the strategy and vision for both areas, and turn that into concrete roadmaps for the team
- You’ll design and build APIs and Dashboard experiences that are available to thousands of Plaid customers
- You’ll partner closely with the engineering team on the technical planning and execution, including maintaining high reliability systems (think many 9’s) that perform up to customer expectations for money movement flows
- Set and maintain a high bar for quality and velocity for your team, leading by example and getting in the weeds of what your team is building
- Set and hit ambitious goals that represent delivering value to our customers and building robust foundations
- Hire, mentor and grow engineers across a range of seniority levels
- Run team process, including micro and macro-execution and collaboration across functions & teams
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows a consumer to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub.
Plaid has integrated with 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. About a quarter of people living in North America with bank accounts have linked with Plaid through at least one of the hundreds of apps that leverage Plaid’s application program interfaces (APIs). The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts.
This is very valuable in a world where there are increasing number of fintechs, so the demand for Plaid's services are only going to grow. Despite its strong position, it has not been immune to the difficult global economic situtation and was forced to restructure at the end of 2022, laying off some of its workforce. However it is still experiencing growth and is well-positioned to weather the current economic uncertainty.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$575m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend (gym on us)
- We offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner to keep you well-fed and healthy (when working from the office)
- From medical, life, dental and pension schemes, we’re here to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing
- We want everyone to feel ownership over their work - literally, which is why we offer equity to full-time Plaids
- Every Plaid is in control of their career development with our learning stipends, tools, and trainings
- We give Plaids the freedom and flexibility to choose where they work - whether that is in a Plaid office, at home in any supported location, or a mix of both!
- Two weeks of synchronous, company-wide vacation
- We want to make sure you have time to meet your personal needs with unlimited PTO
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(CEO)He was a Consultant at Bain and previously a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid
William Hockey
(Board Director)He was previously an associate at Bain and has since moved on from Plaid to become Co-CEO at Column
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