Experienced Engineering Manager, Payments

The role

You will lead the Payments engineering organization consisting of three teams covering account verification, payment risk, and money movement. You will manage three engineering managers and partner with Product leadership to co-own strategy and execution.

What you will do

• Set engineering strategy for Payments in partnership with the Product Area Lead
• Manage three engineering managers by coaching them and calibrating performance
• Own technical direction for the payments platform including verification infrastructure, risk platform, and money movement rails
• Hold the reliability bar for systems where failures move money incorrectly
• Drive recruiting and hiring across the org 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

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 4+ years in engineering management
• 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

Nice to have

• bank payments experience (ACH, RTP, FedNow, or card rails)
• experience shipping ML-powered risk or fraud products
• experience leading AI transformation in an engineering org

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)

About the company

Plaid builds tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create products. The company's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe.