Engineering Manager - LPM Foundations

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

The payments landscape is changing rapidly, with businesses and their customers relying on a growing mix of local payment methods, cards, wallets, bank payments, buy now, pay later, and digital currencies. Stripe’s Local Payment Methods (LPM) business is one of our fastest-growing payments businesses.

What it asks for · 6

• At least 5 years of experience managing teams that shipped high-quality products.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
• A track record of recruiting, developing, and building great engineering teams.
• The ability to work effectively across functions, think rigorously, communicate clearly, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs.
• Technical acumen to partner with staff engineers on architecture and technical strategy.
• Experience creating a healthy and inclusive work environment that is both challenging and supportive.

Also a plus

• Experience building platforms, developer products, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience applying AI to software development, engineering workflows, or product delivery, with strong judgment about where it creates durable value.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for leadership, users, and company-wide audiences.
• A strong quantitative and analytical background.
• Experience leading fully remote or distributed teams.

What the job covers

• Set the vision and roadmap for platform capabilities that help LPM teams build, integrate, and operate payment methods at scale.
• Lead engineers in designing and delivering reliable, self-service foundations that simplify complex integrations and speed up launches.
• Build an AI-first engineering organization: develop the platform hooks and working practices that enable agentic development and help teams use AI to improve execution and product-engineering decisions.
• Partner closely with customers, engineering, product, partnerships, legal, operations, and other stakeholders to align priorities and deliver end-to-end outcomes.
• Drive clear technical and architectural decisions with staff engineers, balancing reliability, extensibility, velocity, and regional payments complexity.
• Lead and improve the team’s operating processes so it can execute effectively and engage well with the rest of Stripe.
• Recruit, develop, and retain great engineers; support their growth and help build a challenging, supportive, and inclusive team culture.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team.

Degree language

• An entrepreneurial mindset and comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• payments13×
• engineering8×
• platform7×
• experience6×
• product6×
• build5×
• lpm5×
• decisions4×
• engineers4×
• foundations4×
• payment methods4×
• requirements4×
• technical4×
• building3×
• development3×
• effectively3×

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