Engineering Manager - Consumer
About The Position
Plaid Link securely connects people’s financial accounts to the apps and services they trust, supporting more than 12,000 financial institutions and 9,000+ apps and services. The Unified Link team is building a single onboarding platform for Plaid products, enabling customers to integrate once through a single API and activate 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 platform without disrupting current traffic. The role partners with a Principal Engineer and the team’s Tech Lead on technical direction and migration sequencing, and collaborates with Product, Design, and other Plaid teams to make the platform easy to adopt and extend. The manager is responsible for maintaining quality and reliability while 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 in architecture and design details and hold a high technical bar.
- 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, and uphold 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.
- Maintain Link’s reliability and health during the transition, balancing new work with long-term system health.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Equity and/or commission, depending on the position offered
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
