Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the Team
The Product and Business Engineering organization manages Stripe's core financial products, develops tools for efficient payment acceptance and risk management, provides a consistent developer experience, and creates solutions that empower businesses to optimize their revenue operations. This includes:
- Money as a Service (MaaS): The Money as a Service (MaaS) team oversees a diverse portfolio of Stripe’s core products and platforms. These offerings facilitate the global movement and management of funds for users. The teams that fall under the MaaS umbrella include: Connect & Accounts, MMS, Crypto, and BaaS including Treasury and Issuing. Together, these teams work to ensure Stripe users have the robust financial infrastructure and tools they need to power their businesses on a global scale.
- Payments and Risk: The Payments Engineering organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding Stripe’s brand and financial stability.
- Developer Experience and Product Platform (DEeP): The Developer Experience & Product Platform (DEeP) team empowers all of Stripe’s products with a shared product platform that can help with rapidly delivering high quality, consistent cross-product experiences across our UI and API surfaces. It focuses on providing consistent and scalable developer experience that any developer can leverage to accelerate customers’ ability to create value from Stripe.
- Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA): The Revenue and Finance Automation (RFA) suite gives businesses power over the entire life cycle of their cash flow. By coordinating billing, tax, reporting, and data services in one modern stack, Stripe’s RFA suite eliminates the inefficiencies of legacy finance tools and supports revenue growth.
Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will be determined throughout the interview process based on business priority, your experience, location, etc. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs outside of Product and Business Engineering depending on open roles.
What you’ll do
As an Engineering Manager at Stripe, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of your team and the broader organization. Your responsibilities will include:
Responsibilities
- Leading engineering and design processes, coaching, mentoring, and supporting your team as they build innovative solutions.
- Collaborating with stakeholders across product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and operations to ensure alignment on projects and objectives and shaping the team’s strategy and roadmap.
- Owning problems from end-to-end by managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies, while continuously seeking opportunities to optimize efficiency and user experience.
- Upholding high engineering standards, ensuring consistency across codebases, and implementing best practices throughout your team.
- Recruiting top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team to build a diverse and high-performing team.
- Supporting your team members' career growth by providing insights and development opportunities tailored to their goals.
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.
Minimum Requirements
- 4+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale
- 8+ years of full time software development experience
- Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different kinds of user needs, with the ability to empathize with users and advocate for exceptional user experiences
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a history of creatively tackling complex challenges
- Background in dealing with ambiguity and executing on multiple high-impact work streams simultaneously
- Commitment to fostering a supportive, feedback-driven, and challenging work environment
- Technical proficiency to engage thoughtfully with engineers about architecture and product design, offering valuable insights when necessary
- A mindset of autonomy and entrepreneurship, where you're excited to take responsibility and drive initiatives forward
Preferred Qualifications
- You have a strong product and design sense, and enjoy finding elegant solutions to complex problems
- Experience thriving in cross-functional environments, demonstrating rigorous thinking, effective decision-making, and ability to build strong cross-team relationships
- You have experience building and leading a distributed team that works across multiple locations and time zones
