Plaid · 10 hours ago
Engineering Manager - Intelligent Tooling
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$215K/yr - $366K/yr
8+ years expPlaid is evolving into an AI-first company, and Intelligent Tooling sits at the center of that transformation. As the Engineering Manager for Intelligent Tooling, you will lead an engineering team responsible for developing AI-powered developer tooling and internal platforms, driving real impact and improvements to developer experience.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Build and grow the Intelligent Tooling engineering team from the ground up, including hiring, setting early technical direction, and establishing team culture and operating norms
Develop, integrate, and own Plaid’s AI-powered developer tooling and internal platforms, including AI coding tools, agentic workflows, and AI-native SDLC automation
Take ownership of existing internal tooling platforms (e.g. Retool, Wadsworth, ID2), ensuring clear ownership, reliable operations, and steady improvements to developer experience
Drive organization-wide adoption of AI tooling by embedding AI directly into core engineering workflows such as coding, testing, debugging, and incident response
Partner closely with DevEff, Security, Privacy, Legal, and other cross-functional partners to ensure AI tooling is safe, compliant, scalable, and aligned with Plaid’s standards
Define and execute against clear success metrics (e.g. usage, quality, reliability) to measure the real impact of Intelligent Tooling across the engineering organization
Qualification
Required
8–10+ years of engineering experience, including time as an IC building production systems
3+ years of experience managing and scaling engineering teams
Demonstrated success driving adoption of new tools or workflows, ideally AI-powered, for their own team
Hands-on experience with AI coding tools, agentic workflows, or LLM-powered developer systems
Strong technical judgment with depth in at least one of: developer tooling / DX platforms, infrastructure or platform engineering, or applied AI systems in production
Experience translating ambiguous strategy into execution and delivering measurable outcomes
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Preferred
Proven experience leading internal platforms or developer tooling with broad adoption across an engineering organization
Prior ownership of internal platforms with reliability and SLOs, supporting a large internal engineering audience
Experience partnering with security, privacy, legal, or other governance functions on AI-related systems
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (41)
2024 (41)
2023 (42)
2022 (53)
2021 (30)
2020 (11)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalIndex Ventures,Kleiner Perkins
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
Eric Sager
COO
Recent News
2026-01-25
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