Engineering Manager, Product and Business

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

About the Team

The Product and Business Engineering organization manages Stripe's core financial products, develops tools for efficient payment acceptance and risk management, provides a consistent developer experience, and creates solutions that empower businesses to optimize their revenue operations. This includes:

• Payments and Risk: Develops products and platforms that enable users to accept payments efficiently, including payment-processing APIs, regional and non-card payment options, and in-person payments. Risk Engineering develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Link: Stripe’s consumer payments network, designed to make online checkout faster and more secure. The Link team builds experiences and infrastructure for consumers, merchants, and payment method partners, including support for local and lower-cost payment methods, smart authentication, and account protections.
• Developer Experience and Product Platform (DEeP): Provides Stripe products with a shared product platform for rapidly delivering high-quality, consistent experiences across UI and API surfaces. The team focuses on scalable developer experiences that help customers create value from Stripe.
• Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA): Gives businesses control over the full life cycle of their cash flow by coordinating billing, tax, reporting, and data services in a modern stack.

Exact team matching for one of the subteams will be determined throughout the interview process based on business priority, experience, location, and other factors. Candidates may also be considered for different organizations outside Product and Business Engineering depending on open roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and design processes, coach and mentor team members, and support the team as it builds innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and operations to align on projects and objectives and shape the team’s strategy and roadmap.
• Own problems end to end by managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies while seeking opportunities to improve efficiency and user experience.
• Uphold high engineering standards, ensure consistency across codebases, and implement best practices.
• Recruit engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team to build a diverse, high-performing team.
• Support team members’ career growth through insights and development opportunities tailored to their goals.

Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale.
• 8+ years of full-time software development experience.
• Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different user needs, with the ability to empathize with users and advocate for exceptional user experiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a history of creatively tackling complex challenges.
• Experience dealing with ambiguity and executing on multiple high-impact workstreams simultaneously.
• Commitment to fostering a supportive, feedback-driven, and challenging work environment.
• Technical proficiency to engage thoughtfully with engineers about architecture and product design and offer valuable insights when necessary.
• An autonomous and entrepreneurial mindset, with enthusiasm for taking responsibility and driving initiatives forward.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong product and design sense, with an interest in finding elegant solutions to complex problems.
• Experience thriving in cross-functional environments, demonstrating rigorous thinking, effective decision-making, and the ability to build strong cross-team relationships.
• Experience building and leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.