Engineering Manager, Money as a Service (MaaS)

stripe payments singapore pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe Payments Singapore Pte. Ltd. is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive the Money Management MaaS initiatives in Asia-Pacific from Singapore.

You will lead multiple pods, own the engineering roadmap for a zero-to-one charter, and coordinate with licensing, banks, and compliance to bring new markets online. You will hire and mentor engineers, maintain strong product judgment, and stay hands-on to understand the money movement stack.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering management experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers.
• Strong technical depth for architecture and reliability in distributed systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple pods and grow the APAC MaaS team.
• Own the engineering side of the zero-to-one charter for new markets.
• Define a sequenced roadmap, decide to build, integrate, or partner.
• Coordinate launches with licensing, banks, networks, and compliance.
• Hire engineers, develop them, and provide timely feedback.
• Stay hands-on: review designs, read code, and understand the stack end-to-end.

Skills

Engineering management

Software engineering

Team leadership

Strategic roadmap

Effective communication

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

Stripe's Money Management products (Financial Accounts, Treasury, Global Payouts, Issuing, and Capital) let businesses and platforms hold, move, spend, and earn on their money using the same infrastructure they already use for payments. Asia-Pacific (APAC) Money as a Service (MaaS) is a newly formed team based in Singapore. The team is responsible for bringing this product suite to Asia-Pacific markets, enabling global businesses and platforms to use these capabilities directly or offer them to their APAC users, and building the local rails, compliance, and partner integrations that make it all work.

What you'll do

In this role, you’ll make some of the most significant strategic, product, and technical decisions for money management in Asia-Pacific at Stripe. The systems this team builds let businesses and platforms integrate with Stripe once, then open accounts, move money, and issue cards across an expanding set of APAC markets and currencies. Businesses and platforms can grow across the region without rebuilding their stack for each country.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple pods and grow the team
• Be accountable for the team's output: what ships, when, and how well it works for users
• Own the engineering side of a zero-to-one charter, turn an ambiguous regional strategy into a sequenced roadmap that reduces risk, make decisions about whether to build, integrate, or partner, and coordinate launches across licensing, bank and network partners, and compliance
• Own the business outcome alongside peers in product, go-to-market, legal, compliance, and partnerships, bring a product point of view, and push back when the plan is wrong
• Stay hands-on and in the details: read the code, review designs, use the product the way our users do, and understand how Stripe's money movement stack works end to end so you can make sound technical calls under uncertainty
• Build the operating system for a newly formed team: hiring, rituals, quality standards, on-call practices, and the processes that let the team move fast while keeping money movement safe and reliable
• Hire great engineers, develop them, and give direct, timely feedback

Who you are

We're looking for someone with a founder's mindset: high agency, comfortable with ambiguity, and biased toward shipping. You've built something from nothing, you know what it takes to launch a product in a new market, and you don't wait for a perfect specification or for permission. You care about users and the product as much as about the code, and you'd rather own an outcome than a process.

Minimum requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience and 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience taking a product or team from zero to one: a new market, a new product line, or a team you built and scaled
• A track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers and building a high-performing, inclusive team
• Strong technical depth to engage credibly on architecture, reliability, and tradeoffs in complex distributed systems, along with strong product judgment and the ability to translate user and market needs into engineering priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders across time zones

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in payments, banking, or money movement, especially launching regulated financial products (accounts, payouts, cards, or lending) in new markets
• Experience operating in APAC markets, including working with local banks, networks, or regulators
• Founder, founding engineer, or early-stage startup experience
• Experience working with distributed partner teams across United States, European, and APAC time zones
• Experience using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve execution, quality, and team effectiveness