The web engineering team is responsible for developing and maintaining Plaid’s website, which is central to our brand and Growth strategies. We’re embarking on an exciting journey to reimagine our site and transform how we connect with customers, showcase our products, and communicate our story. The transformation is happening at all levels as we re-evaluate both the technical platform we’ve built and the customer experience. We’re a highly cross-functional group across Engineering, Product, Design, and Marketing that is looking for an engineering lead to join our team.
As the lead for the team, you will set our technical strategy, defining and delivering a robust web platform that ensures we can develop engaging, interactive and impactful web pages. You’ll achieve this by setting the technical direction, holding a high technical bar for the team, and directly contributing alongside the team. Additionally, you’ll work closely with our cross-functional partners to drive strategy, roadmap and timelines.
Responsibilities
- 6+ years as an engineer on a website for a tech company with a product lead growth motion
- Minimum 1 year as a manager
- Lead the technical strategy for our web platform, championing performance, availability, reliability, accessibility, user delight, and internal velocity. Additionally, contribute to executing against the strategy
- Collaborate closely with Marketing, Design, and Product to set strategy, roadmap, timelines
- Onboard new members to team and maintain a high standard for technical excellence
- Represent web needs in our overall frontend platform efforts focused on the build, deploy, and monitor experience
Qualifications
- Extensive experience in both static and server-side websites
- Extensive experience leading the development of a robust web platform with a CMS
- Extensive experience with Javascript, React, or other modern UI frameworks/libraries
- Prior experience working on a stack with Google Analytics, Marketo, Segment
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS or similar
- Familiarity with technical SEO optimization
- Prior TL experience, demonstrating strong partnership with EMs, PMs and other cross-functional partners and stakeholders
- Experience coaching mid and senior level engineers
Top Skills
What We Do
Plaid is used by thousands of digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by many of the largest banks to make it easy for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe.
At Plaid, we have diverse backgrounds and skills, but we're all passionate about building a more efficient and inclusive financial infrastructure—together.
