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Engineering managers are sponsored as standard practice at Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Netflix, with the role qualifying as one of the strongest H-1B specialty occupations in technology. L-1A managerial transfers from international offices provide a second powerful pathway with no lottery and a direct route to EB-1C green card sponsorship.
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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.
DPX sits within the org that builds the infrastructure powering the Plaid network, including managing the critical surfaces and lifecycles for the financial institutions that power the ecosystem. DPX is responsible for everything from initial onboarding, to API integration, and long-term sustainability, ensuring that every partner has a seamless, high-quality experience that translates into value for millions of end users in the Plaid network. Our work directly impacts Plaid's data quality, partner satisfaction, and the speed at which new institutions come online. We're a small, high-impact team with ambitious goals: 20x growth in partner adoption, 10x faster onboarding, and proactive alerting across all partner types.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As the Engineering Manager for DPX, you'll lead a team of engineers building the products and platform that data partners use to manage their integrations with Plaid. The role requires a blend of technical depth, strategic thinking, and cross-functional leadership to scale partner-facing products from early-stage concepts to industry-leading infrastructure. This is a role where you'll have significant autonomy: you're the dedicated EM for DPX, reporting to the Eng Lead for the entire org.
- Own technical execution and delivery for the DPX roadmap, including the Data Partner Dashboard, onboarding redesign, health monitoring, and migration tooling.
- Manage and grow a team of engineers across multiple locations.
- Partner with PM and cross-functional teams (Solutions Engineering, Data Partnerships, Data Partner Support) to align on priorities and unblock execution.
- Drive engineering quality: code reviews, design reviews, architectural decisions, reliability standards.
- Hire and develop engineers.
- Establish team processes and norms.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years managing engineering teams.
- Experience shipping customer-facing or partner-facing products.
- Strong systems design and architectural judgment.
- Track record of growing engineers and building team culture.
- Excellent communication skills, especially with non-engineering partners.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bonus: experience with API platforms, developer tooling, fintech, or partner ecosystems.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $214,800 - $366,000 a year
Target base salary for this role is between $214,800 and $366,000 per year in San Francisco and New York. The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes equity and benefits. The pay range shown on each job posting is the minimum and maximum target for new-hire salaries. Actual pay may be higher or lower depending on factors like skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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 doesn't 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 [email protected]
Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.
INTRODUCTION
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.
DPX sits within the org that builds the infrastructure powering the Plaid network, including managing the critical surfaces and lifecycles for the financial institutions that power the ecosystem. DPX is responsible for everything from initial onboarding, to API integration, and long-term sustainability, ensuring that every partner has a seamless, high-quality experience that translates into value for millions of end users in the Plaid network. Our work directly impacts Plaid's data quality, partner satisfaction, and the speed at which new institutions come online. We're a small, high-impact team with ambitious goals: 20x growth in partner adoption, 10x faster onboarding, and proactive alerting across all partner types.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As the Engineering Manager for DPX, you'll lead a team of engineers building the products and platform that data partners use to manage their integrations with Plaid. The role requires a blend of technical depth, strategic thinking, and cross-functional leadership to scale partner-facing products from early-stage concepts to industry-leading infrastructure. This is a role where you'll have significant autonomy: you're the dedicated EM for DPX, reporting to the Eng Lead for the entire org.
- Own technical execution and delivery for the DPX roadmap, including the Data Partner Dashboard, onboarding redesign, health monitoring, and migration tooling.
- Manage and grow a team of engineers across multiple locations.
- Partner with PM and cross-functional teams (Solutions Engineering, Data Partnerships, Data Partner Support) to align on priorities and unblock execution.
- Drive engineering quality: code reviews, design reviews, architectural decisions, reliability standards.
- Hire and develop engineers.
- Establish team processes and norms.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years managing engineering teams.
- Experience shipping customer-facing or partner-facing products.
- Strong systems design and architectural judgment.
- Track record of growing engineers and building team culture.
- Excellent communication skills, especially with non-engineering partners.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bonus: experience with API platforms, developer tooling, fintech, or partner ecosystems.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $214,800 - $366,000 a year
Target base salary for this role is between $214,800 and $366,000 per year in San Francisco and New York. The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes equity and benefits. The pay range shown on each job posting is the minimum and maximum target for new-hire salaries. Actual pay may be higher or lower depending on factors like skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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 doesn't 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 [email protected]
Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as an Engineering Manager
FAANG Companies Sponsor EM Roles as Standard
Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft file thousands of H-1B petitions annually and process engineering manager sponsorship routinely. Your visa status will not be a differentiating factor in their hiring decisions. These companies have established LCA precedent for management roles.
L-1A Is the Strongest Long-Term Immigration Path
If you manage an engineering team at a multinational tech company's international office, L-1A managerial transfer has no lottery, no cap, and provides a direct path to EB-1C green card (which also skips PERM). Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber regularly transfer EMs from London, Bangalore, and Sydney through this pathway.
Build a Public Technical Leadership Profile
Patents, open-source project leadership, conference talks, and published technical writing support O-1 extraordinary ability classification, which bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely. Even if you pursue H-1B, a visible technical profile strengthens your candidacy because hiring managers at top companies actively source candidates with public contributions.
Growth-Stage Startups Also Sponsor
Companies that have raised Series B or later (Databricks, Figma, Notion, Vercel, Anthropic) sponsor engineering managers and have the urgency to hire leadership talent they cannot find domestically. These companies offer $150,000 to $220,000 base with significant equity upside that can exceed FAANG total compensation if the company succeeds.
Autonomous Vehicle and AI Companies Are Hiring Aggressively
Waymo, Cruise, Aurora, Tesla AI, and Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI labs are scaling engineering organizations rapidly and need experienced managers. These companies sponsor H-1B aggressively because the domestic talent pool for ML engineering leadership is extremely thin. AI/ML management experience commands a significant premium.
TN Works for Canadian and Mexican Engineering Leaders
The Engineer category on the USMCA treaty list covers software and systems engineering management roles. Canadians can apply at the border and start the same day. TN renews indefinitely in three-year increments, making it viable as long-term work authorization without transitioning to H-1B.
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What is the typical compensation for sponsored Engineering Manager roles in the U.S.?
Engineering managers at Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft earn $200,000 to $300,000 in total compensation at the M1/L6 level. Senior engineering managers earn $300,000 to $420,000. Directors of engineering at major tech companies earn $400,000 to $600,000 or more with equity. H-1B LCA filings for engineering management roles show base salaries typically ranging from $160,000 to $250,000. Growth-stage startups pay $150,000 to $220,000 in base with significant equity upside.
Which visa types do Engineering Managers typically use?
H-1B is the most common and has high approval rates for engineering management roles. L-1A (managerial capacity) is widely used by multinational tech companies transferring engineering leaders to U.S. offices, with the advantage of no annual cap and a direct path to EB-1C green card. TN visas serve Canadian and Mexican citizens under the Engineer category. O-1 is used for engineering leaders with patents, significant open-source contributions, or major product launches. E-3 is available for Australians.
What types of companies sponsor Engineering Managers?
Major technology companies are the primary sponsors: Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Stripe, Uber, and Airbnb all sponsor engineering managers routinely. Growth-stage startups that have raised Series B or later rounds also sponsor, though less predictably. Automotive and autonomous vehicle companies (Tesla, Rivian, Waymo, Cruise), aerospace (SpaceX), and fintech (Stripe, Square, Plaid) are also active sponsors for engineering leadership.
What qualifications do Engineering Manager roles require?
A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field is the baseline requirement. Most engineering managers have 8 to 12 years of total experience, including at least 2 to 3 years of direct people management. Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain engineers is weighted as heavily as technical depth. At senior levels, experience managing managers (M2 or higher) and scaling organizations through rapid growth are differentiating qualifications.
What is the career progression for a sponsored Engineering Manager?
The standard trajectory moves from engineering manager (managing 5 to 10 individual contributors) to senior engineering manager (managing multiple teams or managers) to director of engineering to VP of engineering. At Google, this maps to L6 manager through L8 director to VP levels. Compensation roughly doubles from EM to director level at major companies. Some engineering managers move laterally into staff or principal engineer roles if they prefer the individual contributor track. Others transition to CTO roles at startups.
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