Engineering Manager Intelligent Tooling
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. Were 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. Plaids network covers 12000 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.
Plaid is evolving into an AI-first company and Intelligent Tooling sits at the center of that transformation. The Intelligent Tooling team is being built from the ground up and our mission is to establish the technical foundations operating model and internal platforms that embed AI deeply into Plaids coding tools internal systems and the entire software development lifecycle.
When we are successful engineers across Plaid will delegate lower-leverage work to AI agents move faster with confidence and spend more of their time designing and inventing for customers. Intelligent Tooling owns the platforms and systems that make this possible - from AI coding integrations and SDLC agents to the internal tools that power Plaids operations.
As the Engineering Manager for Intelligent Tooling you will lead an engineering team responsible for some of the highest-leverage systems at Plaid. This role is central to executing Plaids 2026 engineering strategy to supercharge the engineering organization with AI tooling and requires a leader who can both build the team and personally operate at the frontier of AI-powered developer workflows to drive real organization-wide change.
You will set direction drive execution and critically ensure adoption of AI-powered tools that improve how hundreds of engineers build test debug and operate software every day. This is not a research role: success is measured by real usage real impact and real improvements to developer experience.
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 Plaids 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 Plaids 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.
Qualifications
- 810 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.
- Nice to have Proven experience leading internal platforms or developer tooling with broad adoption across an engineering organization.
- Nice to have Prior ownership of internal platforms with reliability and SLOs supporting a large internal engineering audience.
- Nice to have Experience partnering with security privacy legal or other governance functions on AI-related systems.
$214800 - $366000 a year
The target base salary for this position ranges from $214800/year to $366000/year in Zone 1. The target base salary will vary based on the jobs location.
Our geographic zones are as follows:
Zone 1 - New York City and San Francisco Bay Area
Zone 2 - Los Angeles Seattle Washington D.C.
Zone 3 - Austin Boston Denver Houston Portland Sacramento San Diego
Zone 4 - Raleigh-Durham and all other US cities
Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan including medical dental vision and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position candidates work experience and skillset and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesnt fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race color national origin ethnicity religion or religious belief sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression transgender status sexual stereotypes age military or veteran status disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability please let us know at emailprotected.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Plaid helps all companies build fintech solutions by making it easy, safe and reliable for people to connect their financial data to apps and services.
