Engineering Manager, Product Foundations

Posted:
7/31/2025, 6:25:15 AM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Product

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Pay:
$154/hr or $320,320 total comp

The Product Foundations team is responsible for the core technical infrastructure that supports Plaid’s evolving product suite. One of the key foundational teams in this space is called Update Pipeline. Think of us as “Plaid’s Plaid”—a team focused on building the components and interfaces that empower all other teams to create scalable, resilient product solutions.

We solve Plaid’s most challenging problems by managing critical platform layers that drive Plaid’s network and applications. This includes user-present pathways, data ingestion pipelines, bank integration stacks, APIs supporting Plaid’s user network, and core data models.

By abstracting and optimizing these core components, we enable faster product launches, ensure secure and efficient systems, and maintain the cohesive structure that powers Plaid’s modern, data-driven products. This is the area where challenging, Plaid domain-specific technical problems meet product impact.

Plaid

Website: https://www.plaid.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 501-1000

Year Founded: 2013

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Series D

Industries: Banking ⋅ Finance ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ FinTech ⋅ InsurTech ⋅ Wealth Management