Tech Stack
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
API @ 6
Engineering Management @ 3
Marketing
Mentoring
Payments
Software Development @ 6
Technical Proficiency @ 5
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
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.
The organization includes:
- Payments and Risk: Builds products and platforms that enable users to accept payments efficiently, including payment-processing APIs, regional and non-card payment options, in-person payments, and products that minimize financial and regulatory risks.
- Link: Stripe’s consumer payments network, which makes online checkout faster and more secure. The team builds experiences and infrastructure for consumers, merchants, and payment method partners, including local and lower-cost payment methods, smart authentication, and account protections.
- Developer Experience and Product Platform (DEeP): Provides a shared product platform for rapidly delivering high-quality, consistent cross-product experiences across UI and API surfaces, along with a scalable developer experience.
- Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA): Gives businesses tools for managing the full life cycle of cash flow by coordinating billing, tax, reporting, and data services.
Exact team matching for one of the subteams will be determined throughout the interview process based on business priority, experience, and location. Candidates may also be considered for different organizations outside Product and Business Engineering depending on open roles.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering and design processes while coaching, mentoring, and supporting 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 optimize 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 and 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 ability to find elegant solutions to complex problems.
- Experience thriving in cross-functional environments through rigorous thinking, effective decision-making, and strong cross-team relationships.
- Experience building and leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones.