Engineering Manager, Link Consumer

Stripe; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial infrastructure platform in Canada is seeking an Engineering Manager to oversee the development of consumer products that enhance checkout experiences. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in team management, excellent communication skills, and a strong technical background. This role involves collaboration across various teams and leading a remote team effectively.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing teams that shipped high-quality products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences.
• Ability to think rigorously and make hard decisions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Link’s web and mobile apps.
• Build products that cater to consumers and merchants.
• Lead processes to help the team do its best work.

Skills

Team management

Communication skills

Autonomy

Data-driven decision making

Technical acumen

Job description

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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Link helps Stripe’s merchants deliver frictionless and secure checkout experiences by auto‑filling customers’ payment information. Link enables customers to checkout in just 6 seconds, increasing conversion rates for Stripe’s merchants by over 7%. Link is available on the sites of hundreds of thousands of merchants—customers can save payment info on any Link‑supported site, and pay in one click across the Link merchant network. Link is built into merchants’ existing payments integrations on Stripe, with no additional charges or fees.

What you’ll do

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to work on Link’s consumer products — foundational parts of how Link evolves from a one‑click checkout into a broader consumer financial experience. Millions of consumers already use Stripe every year; this gives us a massive opportunity to accelerate the evolution of online commerce by making their experience the best it can be.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Link’s web app or mobile apps
• Iterate towards product‑market fit, building a variety of products both adjacent to and distinct from the point of checkout
• Base your decision‑making on a thorough understanding of consumer behaviour and research
• Build products that cater to both consumers and the merchants integrating Link into their own applications
• Enable the team to work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end‑to‑end
• Lead and manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, data science, operations, partnerships, and marketing
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers

Who you are

Minimum requirements

• At least 5 years of experience managing teams that shipped high‑quality products
• An entrepreneurial mindset
• Successfully recruited and built great teams
• Works effectively cross‑functionally and is able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade‑offs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company‑wide)
• Thrives with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment
• Technical acumen to drive clarity about architecture and technical strategic decisions
• Digs deep into the data, think from first principles, and deliver the right results
• Encourages a healthy and inclusive work environment that’s both challenging and supportive

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets
• Productively lead fully remote teams
• Experience managing mobile teams, shipping both production apps and SDKs