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About this role
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
The GPTN Integrations team within MaaS is responsible for building and maintaining the core orchestration layer and related internal storage primitives (e.g. GPTN Accounts, Transit State) that power reliable, safe, compliant, and programmable movement and storage of funds within the Stripe eco-system. Money as a Service (MaaS) oversees a diverse portfolio of Stripe's core products and platforms. These offerings facilitate the global movement and management of funds for users. The teams that fall under the MaaS umbrella include: Accounts and Connect, Money Movement and Storage (MMS), Crypto and Banking as a Service (BaaS). Together, these teams work to ensure Stripe users have the robust financial infrastructure and tools they need to power their businesses on a global scale.
As the gateway to the Money Movement and Storage Platform, the team provides a programmable interface built on foundational primitives. These primitives serve as the “assembly language” of GPTN, designed for safety, reliability, and compliance, while also supporting seamless expansion into new geographies, financial partners, payment rails, currencies, and regulatory environments. In 2024 and 2025, our primitives powered key Stripe company OKRs such as Global Payouts, Payments Orchestration, the new Financial Accounts dashboard, Stripe Balance Payments.
What you’ll do
We are looking for an exceptional engineering manager who is excited to lead a group of engineers to solve challenging distributed systems problems, as well as developing empathetic partnerships with other Stripe teams to understand their use-case and unlock new capabilities. You will excel in this role if you take calculated risks to deliver results without compromising reliability. If you enjoy building distributed systems, investing in a high-performing team, and collaborating with product and infrastructure teams alike, this role will be a great opportunity for your career.
You will:
- Demonstrate strong first principles thinking when approaching complex problems and system design
- Manage a team of ambitious backend engineers ranging from new grads to staff with 0-4+ years of tenure at Stripe.
- Foster a healthy team culture with a high level of trust, autonomy, and psychological safety.
- Lead and manage processes to help the team do their best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe.
- Collaborate with product and infra engineering teams to deliver a cohesive solution.
Who you are
We are looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience managing teams that shipped and operated critical distributed system infrastructure.
- Works effectively cross-functionally and is able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs.
- Thrives with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
- Technical acumen to drive clarity with staff engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions.
- Consistent track record of hiring and leading productive engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience building and maintaining multi-tenant platform systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).
- Experience building and leading a distributed team that works across multiple locations and time zones.
In-office expectations
Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.Pay and benefits
The annual US base salary range for this role is $236,000 - $354,000. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.