Engineering Manager - LPM Foundations

at Stripe

📍 Dublin, Ireland

EUR 136,000-204,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ On-site

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Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Local Payment Methods (LPM) Foundations team builds and operates the core platform that enables Stripe's LPM teams and first- and third-party developers to build, integrate, and run high-quality payment methods at scale.

This role focuses on payments platforms, AI-enabled engineering workflows, reusable self-service capabilities, and reliable payment experiences globally.

Responsibilities

Set the vision and roadmap for platform capabilities that help LPM teams build, integrate, and operate payment methods at scale.
Lead engineers in designing and delivering reliable, self-service foundations that simplify complex integrations and speed up launches.
Build an AI-first engineering organization by developing platform hooks and working practices that enable agentic development and help teams use AI to improve execution and product-engineering decisions.
Partner with customers, engineering, product, partnerships, legal, operations, and other stakeholders to align priorities and deliver end-to-end outcomes.
Drive technical and architectural decisions with staff engineers, balancing reliability, extensibility, velocity, and regional payments complexity.
Lead and improve team operating processes.
Recruit, develop, and retain engineers while building a challenging, supportive, and inclusive team culture.
Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe's engineering management team.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

At least 5 years of experience managing teams that shipped high-quality products.
An entrepreneurial mindset and comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
A track record of recruiting, developing, and building engineering teams.
The ability to work effectively across functions, think rigorously, communicate clearly, and make or coordinate difficult decisions and trade-offs.
Technical acumen to partner with staff engineers on architecture and technical strategy.
Experience creating a healthy and inclusive work environment that is both challenging and supportive.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building platforms, developer products, or large-scale distributed systems.
Experience applying AI to software development, engineering workflows, or product delivery, with strong judgment about where it creates durable value.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for leadership, users, and company-wide audiences.
A strong quantitative and analytical background.
Experience leading fully remote or distributed teams.