Engineering Manager, Checkout Optimization
Stripe · N/A · 8582 Optimized Checkout - Eng · listed August 28, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Manager
Experience asked
5–10 years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
5
Length
601 words
In the posting’s own words
The Checkout Optimization team is the growth team for Stripe’s checkout UIs. They build high-converting, personalized checkout experiences for buyers and agents, as well as the data platform that powers it.
What it asks for · 5
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale
- 10+ years of full-time software development experience, with a strong background in backend development
- Experience working across geographies
- Experience leading growth or product teams that have used experimentation to drive product usage and other metrics
- Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different kinds of user needs, with the ability to empathize with users and advocate for excellent user experiences
Also a plus
- Previous experience working in payments and on payments technology
- Previous experience leading a growth team
- Previous experience leading a data engineering team
What the job covers
- Lead and manage a team of talented full-stack product and data engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
- Understand buyer and agent needs and pain points to prioritize workstreams and deliver high-quality checkout experiences
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Data Engineering, and engineering teams across Stripe to deliver these solutions
- Lead experimentation and optimization work that improves checkout conversion and buyer experiences
- Build and evolve the data platform that enables reliable, self-serve analysis, experimentation, and product decisions across OCS
- Drive high standards for the quality, reliability, and usability of the data products and pipelines that support OCS decision-making
- Recruit top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team to build a diverse and high-performing team
- Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, including architecture and design, vision, direction, requirements setting, and incident response processes for your team
- Set the team’s direction, from north star vision to goals, OKRs, and roadmap
Tools and skills named
Data
- Experimentation5×
Ways of working
- Mentorship3×
Models & research
- Machine learning2×
Operations & finance
- Recruiting
Product & design
- Roadmap
Words the posting leans on
- experience14×
- data10×
- checkout9×
- product9×
- engineering8×
- optimization6×
- experimentation5×
- requirements5×
- build4×
- buyer4×
- drive4×
- user4×
- agent3×
- building3×
- checkout experiences3×
- data platform3×
Counted from the posting after the mission statement and the legal notices are set aside. The ones near the top are the ones a screener is looking for.
The posting, your resume, and the gaps between them. One click loads all three.