Engineering Manager, Plaid
Integrations Platform
$216-329.4k
Offers Equity
2+ days a week in office
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
Be an early applicant
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$216-329.4k
Offers Equity
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of industry experience, that includes time as a Staff-level engineer before transitioning into management
- 1+ years of engineering management experience
- Deep experience designing scalable, reliable architectures that support real-world products at scale
- Track record of building and growing high performing engineering teams (either as an engineer or a manager)
- We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
What the job involves
- The Integrations Platform team is at the heart of Plaid. Every extraction Plaid performs — on-demand or scheduled — flows through the services this team owns, supporting some of the world's largest companies, including Google, Meta, Shopify, Square, Robinhood, and Venmo
- Our mission is to provide a highly reliable, efficient, and configurable extraction platform that powers all of Plaid's extractions, ensuring products get the bank data they need, when they need it. We are tier-0 in Plaid's architecture: downtime here causes downtime across every Plaid product
- We are the data-supply team for every product at Plaid. Plaid's newest insights products — LendScore (Credit), Protect (Fraud), Signal, EWA Score — depend directly on the accuracy, freshness, and quality of the bank data our platform delivers
- Our customers are Plaid's product engineering teams (Fraud, Credit, Payments, Financial Management), Network Engineering & Access (NEA, the team that writes the per-bank extractors on top of our framework), and the Data Org
- We own three core pillars:
- Traffic: the scheduling and traffic-management systems that decide when and how often Plaid extracts data from each bank. This is one of the hardest optimization problems at Plaid. We need to keep data fresh enough to meet 8,000+ different customers' SLAs, stay inside the rate limits each bank imposes on us, and minimize the cost of every extraction, all at the same time
- Extraction Platform: Our classic platform and the next-generation OAuth extraction framework we're investing in to power the next decade of Plaid’s products
- Network Health: the credentials, tokens, and traffic systems that keep Plaid's connections to banks alive. Once a user links an account, it's our job to keep it authenticated, healthy, and extractable for the years that follow — through token rotations, bank-side changes, and the long tail of failure modes that can break a connection at any point in its lifecycle
- You will lead a team of 6 engineers, ranging from mid-level to Staff, developing them through clear goal setting, coaching, and feedback
- You’ll define and drive the long-term strategy for this foundational area, in close partnership with technical and product leaders across Plaid
- You’ll collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify high-leverage opportunities, shape the roadmap, and dive deep into technical design and execution details to ensure consistent delivery of high-impact business outcomes
- You’ll uphold a high bar for technical quality and delivery velocity, leading by example
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows consumers 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 over 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. And 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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$575m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Vibrant offices in SF, NYC, and Raleigh-Durham—with catered meals, happy hours, and clubs to keep you connected
- Competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and support for fertility, mental health, and parental leave
- Lifestyle perks including home office stipends, daycare support, and commuting benefits like CitiBike and Lyft
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Zach was a Consultant at Bain and a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid ion 2012.
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