Engineering Manager (Consumer)

Plaid; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office locations SF/NYC/Raleigh-Durham

Health & parental benefits

Home office stipend & commuting

Job summary

Plaid is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of about ten engineers through a major transformation. You will unify onboarding products, migrate high-traffic experiences to a new foundation, and continue improving the Link platform while maintaining reliability.

You will partner with a Principle Engineer, Tech Lead, Product and Design to set direction, define interfaces, and ensure the platform remains easy to adopt and extend for internal teams and external users.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in backend or full-stack engineering with scalable systems.
• Experience designing and shipping complex architectures.
• 2+ years of managing engineers, coaching and performance reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead ~10 engineers through a major platform migration and onboarding unification.
• Set technical direction and roadmap in collaboration with Tech Lead and Principle Engineer.
• Drive planning, sprints, and delivery with hands-on code review.
• Hire, develop, and manage engineering talent and performance.
• Collaborate with Product/Design to define interfaces for a unified platform.

Skills

Backend engineering

Full-stack engineering

Architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

Performance management

Job description

• As the Engineering Manager, you will lead roughly ten engineers through a major transformation: bringing our existing onboarding products together, moving Link’s highest-traffic experiences onto the new foundation without disrupting the traffic they carry every day, and continuing to improve the Link experience along the way
• You’ll partner closely with a Principle Engineer and the team’s Tech Lead to set technical direction and sequence the migration, and with Product, Design, and teams across Plaid to make the platform easy to adopt and extend
• All while maintaining a high bar for quality and reliability, and growing your engineers through clear priorities, coaching, and feedback
• Set team strategy and the technical roadmap in partnership with the Tech Lead, balancing the platform migration with ongoing improvements to Link
• Drive team execution (planning, sprints, delivery) and hold a high technical bar through hands‑on involvement in design and code review
• Hire, manage, and develop a team of engineers, including 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 through the transition, making sound tradeoffs between new work and long‑term system health

Benefits

• Vibrant offices in SF, NYC, and Raleigh-Durham—with catered meals, happy hours, and clubs to keep you connected
• Competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and support for fertility, mental health, and parental leave
• Lifestyle perks including home office stipends, daycare support, and commuting benefits like CitiBike and Lyft

• 8+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer, with a track record of designing and shipping complex, scalable systems
• Nice to have: experience building consumer-facing products and/or product led growth (PLG) dev tools
• Strong user empathy and the ability to balance technical tradeoffs with product outcomes
• 2+ years managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, and building a team
• Strong technical depth: you can dive into architecture and design details, and credibly hold a high bar for the team