Engineering Manager, Payments

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

The Payments engineering powers the processing of hundreds of billions of dollars in card payments annually, enabling users to accept card payments from Asia Pacific, Europe, and Middle East regions. As the Engineering Manager for the team, you’ll have responsibility for expanding the reach of Stripe’s global payments network, delivering the best-in-class experience for card payments in these regions.

What it asks for · 7

• 3+ years of experience in an engineering management role.
• 8+ years of full-time software development experience.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully hiring, developing, and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to lead by example in fast-paced, high-impact, and ambiguous environments.
• Commitment to high operational rigor when working with production systems.
• Experience building extensible software solutions that scale with business growth.
• Adept at thriving in a collaborative, cross-functional, and cross-timezone environment, while fostering a positive team culture.

Also a plus

• Experience with payments-related products
• Working in global and cross-regional environments
• Experience using AI tools to improve team execution, quality, and overall effectiveness
• Experience with building out new teams.
• Experience developing product platforms to serve other product teams.
• Proven track record collaborating with partners across multiple regions and time zones.
• Experience and comfort with being in a user facing role.

What the job covers

• Work with other Stripe leaders to author Stripe’s card payments strategy
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers
• Empower the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical productivity, reliability and simplicity
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of Stripe
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
• You thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• You encourage a healthy work environment that’s both supportive and challenging
• You’re excited to help engineers develop new skills and advance in their careers
• You’re clear and persuasive in writing and in person
• You lead by example, by setting the right context, and by helping teammates do their best work
• You’re technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions

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Words the posting leans on

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• card payments5×
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• product5×
• requirements5×
• regions3×
• technical3×
• users3×
• advance2×
• building2×
• careers2×
• decisions2×
• develop2×
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• engineering management2×

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