Engineering Manager - Traffic

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, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. #LI-Remote

The Traffic Team is responsible for building the scheduling platform for all of traffic at Plaid as well as building the optimization models. The team primarily develops new capabilities in the traffic platform as well as training, experimenting and deploying ML models for optimized extraction. The goal is to achieve efficiency and data freshness.

Responsibilities

• Working on large-scale scheduling problems
• People management of engineers - including career growth, performance management, promotions and feedback
• Potentially managing two backend and infra teams
• Building high-performing teams - enabling and empowering your current direct reports paired with recruiting great new talent
• Creating long-term roadmaps and executing against them
• Setting team strategy in partnership with product management counterparts & managing execution (eg planning, sprints, etc.)
• Coordinating with relevant platform-level teams, to deliver on objectives and create longer term strategies

Qualifications

• 2+ years of engineering management experience with significant experience as a software engineer
• Good technical sense with specific experience working on scalability issues
• Product sense and understanding of customer needs
• Experience owning a production product and working with a product manager and/or business partners to drive business impact
• Passion for fostering functioning teams and organizations
• A record of enhancing your reports and providing individuals with meaningful opportunities for growth
• Excitement for recruiting and a thoughtful approach to headcount planning