Engineering Manager, Sandboxes

at Stripe

📍 United States

USD 214,600-321,800 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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Details

Who We Are

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Stripe's mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

Testability is a priority at Stripe. Sandboxes enable safe, isolated, and scalable testing. The Sandboxes team builds and operates testing capabilities that help businesses develop and test Stripe integrations with confidence, including claimable sandboxes and isolated test environments for AI agents.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the Sandboxes engineering team, set technical direction, and operate critical systems.
Build a culture of operational excellence and thoughtful product development.
Work directly with users to understand their needs.
Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to shape and deliver the team's strategy.
Build reusable testing capabilities across Stripe and improve developer tools and user experiences.
Lead engineering planning and execution, partnering with Design to build clear, useful testing experiences.
Shape the team's strategy and roadmap, aligning partners across Product, Design, Infrastructure, Marketing, and Operations.
Own delivery from problem definition through rollout and ongoing operation, improving system performance and user experience.
Uphold high engineering standards across codebases and development practices.
Partner with Recruiting to hire engineers and build a diverse, high-performing team.
Coach and mentor engineers, provide candid feedback, and support career development.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

4+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers building and shipping products at scale.
8+ years of full-time software development experience.
Experience building reusable, extensible software supporting a range of user needs, with strong user empathy and a commitment to high-quality user experiences.
Strong problem-solving skills and a track record of finding practical solutions to complex challenges.
Experience turning ambiguous goals into clear priorities and delivering multiple high-impact workstreams.
A track record of building a supportive environment with candid feedback and high expectations.
Technical depth to guide architecture and product design discussions and help engineers make informed tradeoffs.
Experience taking ownership of initiatives and moving work forward independently.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong product and design judgment, including the ability to simplify complex user experiences.
Experience making decisions and building strong working relationships across teams.
Experience building and leading a distributed team across multiple locations and time zones.
Experience building developer tools or platform capabilities.
Experience building testing tools or capabilities that help users test within a product.
Experience building AI agent systems or tools that support agent-driven development.