Engineering Manager, Payments

Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Payments Engineering team powers the processing of hundreds of billions of dollars in card payments annually, enabling users to accept card payments across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.

As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for expanding the reach of Stripe's global payments network and delivering a best-in-class card payments experience in these regions. You will make strategic, product, and technical decisions for card payments and lead systems that enable users to integrate with Stripe, accept payments across card networks, and grow their businesses globally.

Responsibilities

• Work with other Stripe leaders to shape Stripe's card payments strategy.
• Develop engineers on the team and help them advance in their careers.
• Empower the engineering team to achieve high levels of technical productivity, reliability, and simplicity.
• Manage processes that help the team do its best work and collaborate effectively with the rest of Stripe.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe's engineering management team.
• Recruit exceptional engineers in collaboration with Stripe's recruiting team.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in an engineering management role.
• At least 8 years of full-time software development experience.
• A demonstrated track record of successfully hiring, developing, and mentoring engineers.
• The ability to lead by example in fast-paced, high-impact, and ambiguous environments.
• A commitment to high operational rigor when working with production systems.
• Experience building extensible software solutions that scale with business growth.
• The ability to thrive in a collaborative, cross-functional, and cross-time-zone environment while fostering a positive team culture.
• The ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Technical depth sufficient to ask thoughtful questions about architecture and product decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payments-related products.
• Experience working in global and cross-regional environments.
• Experience using AI tools to improve team execution, quality, and overall effectiveness.
• Experience building new teams.
• Experience developing product platforms that serve other product teams.
• A proven track record of collaborating with partners across multiple regions and time zones.
• Experience and comfort in a user-facing role.