Engineering Manager, Payments API

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead their Payments API team. The role involves overseeing the development of Checkout services, mentoring engineers, and driving the strategy for payment integrations while ensuring reliability and innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision. Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
• Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Stripe system realities, and numerous stakeholders’ preferences and concerns
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as experts product, design, infrastructure, and operations
• Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe

Requirements:

• 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