Engineering Manager, Mobile Development Productivity

at Stripe

📍 United States

USD 236,000-354,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Remote

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Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Mobile Development Productivity team makes building, testing, and releasing Stripe's mobile applications and device-integrated software fast, reliable, and secure.

The team owns the mobile development platform end to end, including development environments, simulators and emulators, continuous integration, automated testing, builds, and releases. It supports engineers working across iOS, Android, React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform, mobile SDKs, and device-integrated software.

The team enables mobile engineers to use AI agents throughout the development process, including writing code, running tests, and validating changes across mobile platforms. Its work reduces manual release effort, improves test coverage, and makes mobile development faster and more reliable.

Responsibilities

Lead, support, and grow a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and creating development opportunities.
Define the team's technical strategy, goals, and roadmap, translating organizational priorities and internal user needs into clear execution plans.
Partner with mobile product teams, infrastructure teams, and technical leaders to identify shared development challenges and align stakeholders around reusable solutions.
Collaborate with staff engineers on architecture and strategic technical decisions across development environments, continuous integration, automated testing, and secure build and release systems.
Establish high standards for reliability, security, engineering craft, and operational rigor across owned systems.
Improve the experience of mobile engineers and AI agents by using measures of developer productivity, build and test performance, and release health to guide investments.
Work effectively with geographically distributed colleagues to maintain alignment, visibility, and clear ownership across teams.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

8+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years of engineering management experience.
Experience leading teams that build platforms, frameworks, infrastructure, or tools used by other engineers.
Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy, guide architecture decisions, and translate ambiguous goals into a clear roadmap and execution plan.
Proven success hiring, coaching, and developing engineers while fostering an inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment.
Ability to align and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, communicate clearly across varied audiences, and coordinate difficult decisions and tradeoffs.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing a developer productivity, developer platform, mobile infrastructure, or internal tools team.
Experience building or operating development environments, continuous integration systems, automated testing frameworks, or build and release infrastructure.
Experience with iOS, Android, React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform, mobile SDKs, or device-integrated software.