Description
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.
You'll lead Plaid's Payments engineering organization,three teams covering account verification, payment risk, and money movement,partnering with our Product Area Lead to co-own the strategy and execution of one of Plaid's largest and fastest-growing businesses.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Qualifications:
- 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.
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).