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 Global Payments Experiences group is an organization focused on bringing new and novel payment methods to Stripe, and ensuring Stripe’s systems work well for merchants globally. This team works with internal and external partners to expand regional, non-card payment options, and the use of Stripe’s payments processing globally.
What you’ll do
Engineering Managers at Stripe are responsible for the success of their team. You’ll be deeply involved in the engineering and design processes as well as coaching, mentoring, and leading the team. You’ll have a deep understanding of how to drive efficient engineering teams and you’ll have a strong user focus. You'll work with engineers on creating technical solutions and communicating effectively across teams and senior leadership.
Responsibilities
- Build full-stack solutions across Stripe's ecosystem, including back-end services, and integrations with other Stripe primitives
- Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user needs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, partnerships, engineering platforms, and other engineering teams to deliver these solutions
- Recruit top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team to build a diverse and high-performing team
- Lead and manage a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
- Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
- Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture and design, vision, direction, and requirements setting, and incident response processes) for your reports
- Set the team’s direction, from north star vision to goals, OKRs, and roadmap
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team
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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale
- 10+ years of full-time software development experience, with a strong background in backend development
- Experience working across geographies
- Experience leading teams with a growth charter, which have used experimentation to drive product usage and growth
- Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different kinds of user needs, with the ability to empathize with users and advocate for excellent user experiences
Preferred qualifications
- Previous experience working in payments and on payments technology
- Previous experience using Stripe products