Technical Lead, API Platform & Infrastructure

Nubeero Limited; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Technical Lead to join the API Platform team in San Francisco. You will lead a team of engineers, drive service-oriented architecture adoption, and ensure the scalability and reliability of Stripe's infrastructure built for thousands of engineers and customers.

You will mentor engineers, shape roadmaps with engineering managers, and translate high-level goals into concrete technical initiatives while maintaining a strong focus on quality and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of technical experience.
• 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
• Experience leading API design and developer platforms.
• Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products.
• Proven track record delivering pragmatic solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers and set roadmaps.
• Collaborate with engineering managers to deliver milestones.
• Prioritize work based on user needs and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Oversee end-to-end project delivery and maintain quality.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for architecture and incident response.
• Align Stripe's services roadmap with company leaders.
• Foster collaborative, inclusive team environment.

Skills

Technical leadership

API design

Software architecture

Go/Java/Python/Ruby

Team mentorship

Strategic planning

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Databases

Web framework

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Technical Lead to join the API Platform team in San Francisco. You will lead a team of engineers, drive service-oriented architecture adoption, and ensure the scalability and reliability of Stripe's infrastructure built for thousands of engineers and customers.

You will mentor engineers, shape roadmaps with engineering managers, and translate high-level goals into concrete technical initiatives while maintaining a strong focus on quality and collaboration across teams.