Engineering Manager, Revenue Foundations

Stripe; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking an Engineering Manager to drive the success of a growing team responsible for core billing infrastructure and orchestration platforms. You will lead engineering and design processes, collaborate with product, design, infra, and ops to align on objectives, and own problems from end-to-end while improving efficiency and reliability.

You will uphold high engineering standards, mentor engineers, recruit top talent, and guide career development in a fast-paced, globally distributed

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing and growing teams of engineers.
• Proven track record managing a team of 5+ software engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a history of tackling complex challenges.
• Experience thriving in cross-functional environments with rigorous decision-making.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage multiple high-impact work streams.
• Commitment to fostering a supportive, feedback-driven, and challenging environment.

Responsibilities

• Leading engineering and design processes, coaching, mentoring, and supporting your team as they build innovative solutions.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across product, design, infrastructure, and operations to ensure alignment on projects and objectives.
• Owning problems from end-to-end by managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies, while continuously seeking opportunities to optimize efficiency and user experience.
• Upholding high engineering standards, ensuring consistency across codebases, and implementing best practices throughout your team.
• Recruiting top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team to build a diverse and high-performing team.
• Supporting your team members' career growth by providing insights and development opportunities tailored to their goals.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Architecture discussions

Autonomy and entrepreneurship

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 Organization

The Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) teams create solutions that empower businesses to optimize their revenue operations. A significant component of RFA is the Revenue team, which is one of our fastest-growing product areas and helps businesses manage and scale their revenue effectively.

The Orchestration team builds the foundational execution engines, background job processing frameworks, and asynchronous event platforms that power Stripe’s global billing infrastructure. We own the core execution primitives and platform systems that orchestrate the end-to-end financial lifecycle for millions of businesses worldwide.

At Stripe’s scale, the Orchestration team sits at the intersection of high-throughput distributed systems and mission-critical financial reliability. Our job processing and event scheduling platforms execute millions of scheduled workloads and asynchronous tasks daily with extreme precision, handling everything from global recurring billing cycles to complex time-dependent execution workflows.

As Stripe expands to support complex monetization models and enterprise scale, our team is architecting the next generation of core platform infrastructure. We build highly leveraged primitives and foundational frameworks that enable product teams across Stripe to innovate rapidly while operating on an uncompromising foundation of reliability, fault tolerance, and global scale.

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager at Stripe, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of your team and the broader organization. Your responsibilities will include:

Responsibilities

• Leading engineering and design processes, coaching, mentoring, and supporting your team as they build innovative solutions.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across product, design, infrastructure, and operations to ensure alignment on projects and objectives.
• Owning problems from end-to-end by managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies, while continuously seeking opportunities to optimize efficiency and user experience.
• Upholding high engineering standards, ensuring consistency across codebases, and implementing best practices throughout your team.
• Recruiting top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team to build a diverse and high-performing team.
• Supporting your team members' career growth by providing insights and development opportunities tailored to their goals.

Who you are

We're looking for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications below, with preferred qualifications that would be advantageous but are not required.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing and growing teams of engineers.
• Proven track record managing a team of 5+ software engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a history of creatively tackling complex challenges.
• Experience thriving in cross-functional environments, demonstrating rigorous thinking and effective decision-making.
• Background in dealing with ambiguity and executing on multiple high-impact work streams simultaneously.
• Commitment to fostering a supportive, feedback-driven, and challenging work environment.
• Technical proficiency to engage thoughtfully with engineers about architecture and product design, offering valuable insights when necessary.
• A mindset of autonomy and entrepreneurship, where you're excited to take responsibility and drive initiatives forward.

Alignment with Stripe’s Operating Principles

In this role, you will embody our operating principles by maintaining a focus on user outcomes, fostering open communication and cross-team collaboration, and embracing an iterative approach to both product development and team management. You will make decisions that reflect our commitment to integrity, excellence, and the long-term success of our users and the company.

If you are passionate about empowering engineers and driving impactful projects in a dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you!