Engineering Manager of Managers, Billing Subscriptions

Monograph; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial infrastructure company is seeking a Head of Engineering for Subscriptions in Toronto. This role involves driving product development and engineering excellence, requiring significant experience in managing teams and strategic projects. You will lead diverse teams and play a pivotal role in scaling subscription services while ensuring reliable and innovative engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of experience in software development.
• 10 years in engineering management roles with 5 years managing managers.
• Experience building diverse teams and tackling technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Drive roadmap for Subscriptions, collaborating across teams for scaling.
• Support engineering teams to achieve technical excellence and stability.
• Recruit and develop engineers in the team.

Skills

Software Development

Team Management

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience

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

As the Head of Engineering for Subscriptions at Stripe, you lead the development of Stripe’s Subscription product, which is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from small businesses to large enterprises, to grow revenue globally. You support development of new capabilities by running a platform strategy for Subscriptions - you focus development teams on building reusable abstractions to power various recurring revenue business models, and invest in technology to let Stripe engineers and Stripe’s users hook these abstractions together in flexible ways. By fostering cross-functional collaboration and maintaining high engineering standards, you ensure the delivery of robust solutions that meet Stripe’s high reliability bar. You are detail oriented and care deeply about enabling product outcomes through intentional construction of platform capabilities. Your role is pivotal in helping businesses adopt recurring revenue models and unlock new growth opportunities for Stripe, while being an anchor for the Billing organization in Toronto - a pivotal and strategic growth area for the organization.

What you’ll do Responsibilities

• Work with all Stripe leaders across the company to set and execute a vision for how to rapidly scale Stripe revenue product offerings and features quickly and efficiently to support top enterprise use cases.
• Drive the roadmap and priorities for the Subscriptions organization, and work with dependencies across the company.
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability.
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of Stripe.
• Recruit great engineers, both individual contributors and engineering managers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team.
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience with minimum 15 years of experience with software development.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in an engineering management and/or leadership role; overseeing strategic projects, including minimum 5 years of Manager of Manager experience.
• Built diverse teams to tackle challenging technical problems.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.

Preferred qualifications

• Successfully shipped and operated critical infrastructure. You’ll have significant responsibility over the funds flowing through Stripe and the ability to make or break Stripe’s future.
• Thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Worked on both product and platform teams. You understand how a platform strategy can enable massive product scaling.
• Be curious. You enjoy learning and diving into the nuts-and-bolts of how things work – in this role, you’ll learn a ton about global money movement rails, currency conversion, inter-company flows, finance and accounting and more.
• Be humble. It’s important to continue to learn and grow as an individual, engineer, and leader.