Engineering Manager, Terminal

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As a platform company powering businesses all over the world, Stripe processes payments, runs marketplaces, detects fraud, helps entrepreneurs start internet businesses from anywhere in the world, builds world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. The engineering teams at Stripe work on the business logic for all of that. As a software engineering manager at Stripe, you'll lead teams that build and expand APIs, services, and experiences. You'll also work with partners to launch new markets and vertical capabilities.

What it asks for · 8

• A strong technical background with 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership across mobile , API , and backend development teams and demonstrated broad technical leadership
• Experience building diverse teams to tackle challenging technical problems
• An understanding of the impact of AI and a strong product mindset to turn emerging capabilities into clear customer and business value
• Experience thriving in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Understanding of how to build and manage scalable, resilient, and observable systems across the stack
• The ability to listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
• The ability to put yourself in the shoes of our merchants and users
• Experience leading large technical projects with internal and external dependencies and impact across many teams

Also a plus

• Industry experience building or managing teams who have built in-person checkout experiences or payment method integrations
• Experience with in-person payments hardware and software such as card readers and firmware
• A deep understanding of the payments industry as a whole

What the job covers

• Work with leaders across Stripe to create and drive toward the vision of Unified Commerce, bringing in-person and online payments together
• Drive the roadmap and priorities for your team, and work with dependencies across the company
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of Stripe
• Recruit excellent engineers in collaboration with the Stripe recruiting team and develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers
• Understand core Stripe APIs, influence design to interplay with card-present payments, and build a platform for Unified Commerce with your team
• Empower and guide your team to build and scale integrations and core abstractions across payment methods, gift cards, and point-of-sale connectors for large-scale enterprise
• Drive table stakes features like surcharging and tipping across Enterprise and SaaS platform merchants

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• experience12×
• payments11×
• build6×
• terminal6×
• businesses5×
• engineering5×
• in-person5×
• integrations5×
• technical5×
• unified commerce5×
• drive4×
• enterprise4×
• features4×
• online4×
• requirements4×
• apis3×

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