Plaid helps all companies build fintech solutions by making it easy, safe and reliable for people to connect their financial data to apps and services. Backed by Index, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.
About the role
Set engineering strategy for Payments in partnership with the Product Area Lead, balancing product delivery against foundational investment across three teams. Manage three engineering managers — coach them, calibrate performance, and build the management bench. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience and 4+ years in engineering management, including 1+ years managing managers
- Experience leading an engineering organization of 20+ through an EM layer
- Experience owning transactional, high-reliability systems where correctness and availability have direct financial consequences
- Track record of building technical foundations that created compounding returns
- Experience working cross-functionally with product, data, operations, and business teams as a true partner
- Nice to have: bank payments experience (ACH, RTP, FedNow, or card rails), experience shipping ML-powered risk or fraud products, and experience leading AI transformation in an engineering org
More about this role
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.
Plaid Payments is building the infrastructure that makes paying from a bank account as simple and as trusted as paying with a card — at better economics for everyone involved. We verify that an account is real and safe to debit, we score the risk of Billions in transactions a month against more than a thousand signals drawn from the Plaid network, and we move billions of dollars a month across...
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