Engineering Manager, Platform (Privy)

Monograph; New York (NY); On-site; USD 236,000 - 354,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Privy is seeking an Engineering Manager who will lead and grow high-performing teams and shape the future of our core platform. You will own the team’s impact on Privy’s product and business, drive excellence, and coach engineers toward ambitious career goals with a focus on quality and collaboration.

You’ll partner with the Tech Lead and Product Manager to align work with business outcomes, maintain a strong builder culture, and ensure teams are empowered to deliver impact across multi-region

Qualifications

• Strong ownership with focus on business impact.
• Proven track record leading engineering teams.
• Able to evaluate technical quality and provide feedback.
• Strategic thinker with clear communication skills.
• Experience coaching engineers toward growth goals.

Responsibilities

• Own long-term team outcomes for Privy's product and business.
• Hold the team to excellence in quality, throughput, and performance.
• Ensure the team works on high-impact scope aligned with business goals.
• Act as player-coach: review PRs, design docs, and incidents.
• Coach engineers toward career growth and goals.
• Foster a supportive, motivating team culture with weekly wins.
• Partner with Tech Lead and Product Manager to drive outcomes.

Skills

Ownership mindset

People leadership

Technical excellence

Strategic thinking

Communication

Job description

Who we are

About Privy

Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails.

Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link. We get to solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers like Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo — powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives.

About the team

Engineering at Privy is distinguished by:

• High urgency: Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly.
• Product taste: Our customers are developers, and to build effective products for them requires technical knowledge - you will often be "the PM".
• Security mindset: A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start.

In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers.

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager at Privy, you will lead, grow, and shape high-performing engineering teams that make a massive impact on our product and industry. Your North Star is to enable and drive towards the success of Privy’s business overall.

The buck stops with you: you are the owner of your team’s ultimate impact on Privy’s product and business. We believe that excellence in management is why our team loves working at Privy. Incredible managers are the core driver behind Privy’s long-term success: they are force multipliers, performance coaches, culture-carriers. They build the scaffolding that supports the team and each individual’s greatest impact. They shape Privy to be the place where each person gets to do the very best work of their careers.

We wake up every day committed to helping our team do the best work of their careers. We shape roles around the unique strengths of every person and we are deeply grateful for the time we spend together building something greater than ourselves.

• Own long-term team outcomes and success of Privy’s product and business
• Hold the team accountable to excellence in quality, throughput, and performance
• Ensure the team is working on the right scope of work and projects, align decisions with business impact, and build interfaces with other parts of the org
• Fill gaps as a player-coach; review PRs, write and review design docs, investigate incidents – stay close to the metal and reinforce our builder culture
• Coach engineers towards growth and their career goals
• Build a supportive, fun, motivating, celebratory team culture so that the team wins every week
• Partner with the team’s Tech Lead and Product Manager to drive successful engineering and product outcomes

Who you are

• Deep ownership and a high-level perspective on driving overall business impact
• Performance-oriented mindset, with a high bar for quality and excellence
• Technical excellence to be able to independently evaluate quality and technical feedback
• High emotional maturity, insightfulness, and care
• Strong past experience as a manager and leader – excellent management takes reps

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.