Engineering Manager, Agentic Commerce

Stripe; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe’s Agentic Commerce team in Seattle seeks an Engineering Manager to shape and deliver AI-powered commerce APIs and experiences. You’ll lead cross-functional collaboration with product, design, data science and marketing to unlock opportunities for customers and partners globally.

You’ll guide full stack solutions across Stripe's ecosystem, mentor senior engineers, set clear success metrics, and ensure enterprise-grade reliability while balancing autonomy and guidance in a fast-evolving

Qualifications

• Must have computer science background and strong engineering foundation.
• Experience coaching senior and staff engineers and leading large initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Build full stack solutions across Stripe's ecosystem, including backend services and dashboards.
• Partner with product, design, data science, and marketing to ship high-impact features.
• Set success metrics, run experiments, and ensure enterprise-grade reliability and performance.
• Collaborate across Stripe's platform and product teams to deliver agentic commerce capabilities.
• Engage with enterprise users to translate needs into new product shapes.

Skills

Engineering leadership

AI-native thinking

Coaching senior engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Strong communication

Education

CS background

Tools

APIs development

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

Agentic payments is a team that’s building new APIs and integration experiences for agentic commerce online. We think that the proliferation of consumer-facing AI experiences will unlock new ways that consumers buy things online, and our existing payments experiences need to evolve to new commercial models that cutting-edge builders are starting. Our first launch, Instant Checkout in collaboration with OpenAI, took the industry by storm and we’re bringing experiences like that to the entire universe of AI agents and sellers.

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager on Agentic Commerce, you’ll own the shaping and delivery of transformative products that redefine how commerce works, making it more fluid, automated, and aligned with user intent. You’ll collaborate closely with product management, design, data science, and marketing to unlock new opportunities for our customers and partners globally.

Our north star provides a new integration model for AI agents who are looking to build agent-powered online commerce experiences, via their Stripe integration. They will have access to our entire suite of connected sellers, and can focus on the end-user experience. Enabling an AI agent to do this requires new API primitives, new dashboard surfaces, and deep thought about what financial and e-commerce complexity Stripe can simplify on their behalf.

Responsibilities.

• Build full stack solutions across Stripe's ecosystem, including back end services, dashboard interfaces, money movement systems, and integrations with other Stripe primitives
• Partner deeply with product management and design to ship high impact features that increase user autonomy and reduce friction.
• Apply strong analytical skills to dive into data, test hypotheses, and make informed trade-offs. Set success metrics for the team to ensure solutions are enterprise-grade and quickly meet Stripe’s reliability SLOs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across Stripe’s broader platform and product teams to integrate agentic commerce capabilities seamlessly.
• Engage directly with users (particularly large enterprises) to understand their business needs and translate requirements into novel product shapes.

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

• 10+ years of engineering experience with a computer science background with hands on development expertise
• AI-native and very comfortable autonomously solving problems with agentic AI tools
• Proven experience coaching and developing senior and staff level individual contributors
• Demonstrated experience of leading initiatives that touch large engineering organizations, spanning multiple teams to influence tech roadmap planning and execution
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, structuring ambiguous concepts clearly and from first principles
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
• Deep empathy for users balancing autonomy and guidance in digital commerce experiences.

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience
• Experience building APIs or new integration experiences for users, several of them being enterprise grade
• You’ve been on the founding team of a business / startup, taking a product from 0-1
• Experience in eCommerce and/or payments.