Engineering Manager, Product & Business

Stripe; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe in Seattle is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on building scalable financial infrastructure. You will coach engineers, shape delivery processes, and partner with product, design, and infrastructure teams to deliver high-impact features.

You will own problems end-to-end, uphold coding standards, and drive architecture decisions while recruiting top talent. This role invites autonomy and entrepreneurial thinking to improve the developer experience and product outcomes

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering management with teams of 5+ engineers.
• 8+ years of full-time software development experience.
• Experience building scalable, extensible software solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle ambiguity.
• Commitment to a supportive, feedback-driven work environment.
• Technical ability to discuss architecture with engineers.
• Autonomy and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and design processes, coaching, mentoring, and support for the team.
• Collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and operations to align on projects and roadmap.
• Own problems end-to-end by managing diverse systems and technologies and optimizing user experience.
• Uphold high engineering standards and implement best practices across codebases.
• Recruit top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team.
• Support team members' career growth with insights and development opportunities.

Skills

Engineering management

Software development

System design

Problem solving

Ambiguity handling

Autonomy & 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 Team

The Product and Business Engineering organization manages Stripe's core financial products, develops tools for efficient payment acceptance and risk management, provides a consistent developer experience, and creates solutions that empower businesses to optimize their revenue operations. This includes:

• Payments and Risk: The Payments Engineering organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding Stripe’s brand and financial stability.
• Link:Link is Stripe’s consumer payments network, designed to make online checkout faster and more secure. It lets consumers save their payment details and use them across participating Stripe businesses, reducing friction at checkout while helping businesses improve conversion. The Link team builds experiences and infrastructure for consumers, merchants, and payment method partners, including support for local and lower-cost payment methods, smart authentication, and account protections. Over time, Link aims to give consumers more choice in how they pay while helping businesses grow revenue and manage payment costs.
• Developer Experience and Product Platform (DEeP): The Developer Experience & Product Platform (DEeP) team empowers all of Stripe’s products with a shared product platform that can help with rapidly delivering high quality, consistent cross-product experiences across our UI and API surfaces. It focuses on providing consistent and scalable developer experience that any developer can leverage to accelerate customers’ ability to create value from Stripe.
• Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA): The Revenue and Finance Automation (RFA) suite gives businesses power over the entire life cycle of their cash flow. By coordinating billing, tax, reporting, and data services in one modern stack, Stripe’s RFA suite eliminates the inefficiencies of legacy finance tools and supports revenue growth.

Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will be determined throughout the interview process based on business priority, your experience, location, etc. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs outside of Product and Business Engineering depending on open roles.

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, marketing, and operations to ensure alignment on projects and objectives and shaping the team’s strategy and roadmap.
• 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 someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

Minimum Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale
• 8+ years of full time software development experience
• Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different kinds of user needs, with the ability to empathize with users and advocate for exceptional user experiences
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a history of creatively tackling complex challenges
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• You have a strong product and design sense, and enjoy finding elegant solutions to complex problems
• Experience thriving in cross-functional environments, demonstrating rigorous thinking, effective decision-making, and ability to build strong cross-team relationships
• You have experience building and leading a distributed team that works across multiple locations and time zones