Experienced Engineering Manager, Plaid

Security

$242.4-400k

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

1-5 days a week in office

Plaid

Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech

Open for applications

Plaid

Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech

1001+ employees

FintechB2BBankingInternal toolsSaaSAPI

Open for applications

$242.4-400k

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

1-5 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2BBankingInternal toolsSaaSAPI

Company mission

Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • 8+ years of experience in software development, preferably with a focus on security. This role requires significant technical depth and breadth
  • Demonstrated ability to manage engineering teams effectively, with a focus on technical excellence
  • Effective people management skills, including strategy and goal setting, prioritization, cross-team coordination, and continuous feedback
  • Broad knowledge of offensive threats, defensive techniques, and security best practices
  • Proven ability to both influence and get things done within your team as well as cross-functionally across the organization

What the job involves

  • We are looking for a dynamic engineering leader to support building secure products and infrastructure for the next phase of growth and innovation for Plaid
  • This role plays a critical cross-functional role across engineering in the execution and delivery of security primitives, services, and infrastructure to support the technology initiatives driving the growth of the business
  • Leading a skilled software engineering team to deliver on increasingly impactful and ambitious objectives across many security domains, including: Zero Trust, Data Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Loss Prevention, Vulnerability Management, and Supply Chain Security and Integrity
  • End-to-end ownership of comprehensive security controls that scale across Plaid’s microservices and data platforms and enable efficient and secure product delivery
  • Developing a strategy to support Plaid’s business objectives through customer-centric engineering solutions
  • Advise on, contribute to, and drive the security vision and strategy at Plaid
  • Applying previous experience to provide guidance, mentorship, and growth for team members
  • Following changes in the state of security as an industry, and maintaining up to date knowledge of offensive threats, defensive techniques, and best practices

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Insights

Top investors

40% female employees

-15% employee growth in 12 months

Company

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

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Apr 2025

$575m

LATE VC

Apr 2021

$425m

SERIES D

Total funding: $1.3bn

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.

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