Engineering Manager - Consumer

Plaid • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Plaid Link securely connects people’s financial accounts to the apps and services they trust, and serves as the foundation for onboarding, payments, identity, and lending experiences. The Unified Link team is building a single onboarding platform for Plaid products so customers can integrate once through a single API and enable additional products through the dashboard.

The Engineering Manager will lead roughly ten engineers through the consolidation of existing onboarding products and the migration of Link’s highest-traffic experiences to the new foundation, while continuing to improve Link. The role partners with a Principal Engineer, the team’s Tech Lead, Product, Design, and teams across Plaid to set technical direction, sequence the migration, and make the platform easy to adopt and extend. The manager is also responsible for maintaining quality and reliability and developing engineers through clear priorities, coaching, and feedback.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer, with a track record of designing and shipping complex, scalable systems.
• At least 2 years of experience managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, and building a team.
• Strong technical depth, including the ability to engage with architecture and design details and hold a high bar for the team.
• Strong user empathy and the ability to balance technical tradeoffs with product outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building consumer-facing products and/or product-led growth (PLG) developer tools.

Responsibilities

• Set team strategy and the technical roadmap with the Tech Lead, balancing platform migration with ongoing Link improvements.
• Drive team execution, including planning, sprints, and delivery.
• Maintain a high technical bar through hands-on involvement in design and code review.
• Hire, manage, and develop engineers through goal setting, coaching, feedback, and performance management.
• Partner with Product, Design, and engineering teams across Plaid to define clear interfaces and make the unified platform easy to adopt and extend.
• Keep Link reliable and healthy during the transition, making sound tradeoffs between new work and long-term system health.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k).
• Additional compensation in the form of equity and/or commission, depending on the position offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed