Engineering Manager, Local Payment Methods

at Stripe

📍 Seattle, United States

USD 236,000-354,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

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. Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

About the Team

The Local Payment Methods team works on global payment methods such as credit cards, iDeal, and UPI. The team builds payment methods that help businesses increase revenue and grow, along with the platform used to build and distribute payment methods at scale.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support.
Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions.
Drive project execution across the full development lifecycle, from planning through delivery.
Provide hands-on technical leadership, including architecture and design, vision and direction, requirements setting, and incident response processes.
Set the team’s direction, including its vision, goals, OKRs, and roadmap.
Align with the broader MaaS organization and customers.
Execute the roadmap while adapting to a changing environment.
Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment that promotes innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
Partner with recruiting to attract and hire top talent and define hiring strategies.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

5+ years of management experience and 12+ years of total software engineering experience.
Experience building products and an interest in product development.
Experience leading a team with multiple workstreams.
Sufficient technical depth to drive clarity with staff engineers on architecture and technical strategy decisions.
Ability to work effectively cross-functionally, think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate difficult decisions and trade-offs.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences, including leadership, users, and the company.
Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on-call rotations.
Commitment to a healthy work environment that is both challenging and supportive.