Head of Payments Engineering

Plaid Inc.; New York (NY); Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Zusammenfassung

Plaid is building the payments infrastructure that enables billions in transactions. We’re looking for a leader to own the Payments engineering organization, overseeing three teams focused on account verification, risk, and money movement.

You’ll partner with the Product Area Lead to set strategy, hire, and drive execution for a high-impact business. You’ll manage three engineering managers, shape technical direction, and ensure reliability and correctness in financial systems while

Qualifikationen

• 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), and ML-powered risk/fraud product leadership.

Aufgaben

• 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.
• Own technical direction for the payments platform: verification infrastructure, the Signal risk platform and its ML and data pipelines, money movement rails, and customer-facing APIs and dashboards.
• Hold the reliability bar for systems where failures move money incorrectly.
• Drive recruiting and hiring across the org; set the bar and own pipeline health.
• Drive overall strategy of the product area together with Product leadership.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, data science, PMM, GTM, payment operations, compliance, and customers.

Kenntnisse

Software engineering

Engineering management

Managing managers

High reliability systems

Cross-functional partnership

Jobbeschreibung

Plaid is building the payments infrastructure that enables billions in transactions. We’re looking for a leader to own the Payments engineering organization, overseeing three teams focused on account verification, risk, and money movement.

You’ll partner with the Product Area Lead to set strategy, hire, and drive execution for a high-impact business. You’ll manage three engineering managers, shape technical direction, and ensure reliability and correctness in financial systems while