Experienced Engineering Manager, Plaid
Security
$242.4-400k
1-5 days a week in office
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Open for applications
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$242.4-400k
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
- 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
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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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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