Engineering Manager, Commerce Systems

Stripe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 354,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity equity grant

401(k) plan

Medical / dental / vision benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe is seeking an experienced technical leader to head a Commerce Systems team in California. The role focuses on expanding self-serve billing capabilities, launching pricing and monetization features, and ensuring accurate billing outcomes across Stripe’s product suite.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, sales, finance, and accounting to influence company strategy and drive cross-functional impact while scaling Stripe’s platform and teams in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of engineering experience with at least 4 years of management experience.
• Proven ability to lead high-complexity teams of 8+ engineers.
• Experience thriving in cross-functional environments with rigorous decision-making.
• Successfully recruited, mentored, and built high-performing teams across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Understand team mission and set strategies balancing monetization, self-service, and reliability.
• Lead engineering and design processes, coaching and mentoring.
• Build strong relationships with leaders across product, finance, accounting, and strategy.
• Develop a healthy team with growth paths and scalable leadership.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Management experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Recruitment & mentoring

Autonomy & ownership

Distributed teams collaboration

Communication skills

Job description

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.

Who we are

About Stripe is the same content repeated: 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 a platform company powering businesses all over the world, Stripe processes payments, runs marketplaces, and detects fraud, helping entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world. Commerce Systems provides a central entry point for Stripe teams to monetize products in global markets. We build platforms and services to define and manage pricing, calculate and collect Stripe’s revenue, and empower Stripe and our users to understand and manage revenue and costs. We work on customer-facing experiences, internal platforms, and data pipelines to empower Accounting, Finance, Strategy, Sales, and Stripe’s Products to drive business value across the entire user and product lifecycle.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a seasoned technical leader to lead a team within the Commerce Systems organization. As the leader in Commerce Systems, your goals will include increasing the self-serve capabilities of the billing platform to accelerate product development across Stripe’s product suite; launching new pricing and monetization capabilities for our product and sales teams; ensuring the rigor, accuracy, and predictability of billing outcomes; and enabling our partners in finance, strategy, and accounting to deeply understand Stripe’s business performance. You’ll work with leaders across product, engineering, sales, and many of our back office functions—finance and strategy, accounting, tax, and compliance—to influence strategy across the company.

Commerce Systems is a core engine powering many of Stripe’s biggest bets, from shipping new products faster to redefining our commercial strategy. The right engineering leadership will enable Stripe to scale more quickly and more reliably as our business accelerates. If that sounds exciting, we’d love to speak with you.

Responsibilities

• Understand the core mission and responsibilities of your team. Set strategies and priorities to balance improvements across multiple dimensions including monetizing new products, enabling greater self-service and improved developer experience, and improving technical foundations and operational excellence.
• Lead engineering and design processes, coaching, mentoring, and supporting your team as they build innovative solutions.
• Develop strong relationships with other leaders and orgs to ensure efficient collaboration and close alignment on objectives and outcomes.
• Build a healthy team with a strong bench of leaders by supporting team members’ growth and hiring both internally and externally.

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+ total years of engineering experience with a minimal 4 years of management experience.
• Successfully led high-complexity teams of 8+ engineers, working in parallel on multiple high-impact areas.
• Experience thriving in cross-functional environments, demonstrating rigorous thinking and effective decision-making.
• Successfully recruited, mentored, and built high-performing teams, creating an inclusive environment that attracts diverse talent and empowers individuals to thrive.
• Ability to operate with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, taking ownership of projects and driving initiatives that contribute to the overall success of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with partners in a geographically distributed org, promoting clear communication and collaboration across time zones to ensure alignment and shared goals.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, enabling clear and persuasive interactions with colleagues and stakeholders, ensuring understanding of technical concepts and fostering collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or improving platforms that empower other developers, optimizing for self-service and extensibility.
• Domain knowledge in payments, billing, or other financial technology is beneficial but not essential.

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $236,000 - $354,000. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings(“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we’re looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.

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