Engineering Manager, Product and Business

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that helps businesses accept payments, grow revenue, and manage financial operations. The Engineering Manager will lead engineering and design processes, shape team strategy and roadmaps, collaborate cross-functionally, uphold engineering standards, recruit talent, and support team members’ career growth.

Responsibilities:

• Leading engineering and design processes, coaching, mentoring, and supporting your team as they build innovative solutions
• Collaborating with stakeholders across product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and operations to ensure alignment on projects and objectives and shaping the team’s strategy and roadmap
• Owning problems from end-to-end by managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies, while continuously seeking opportunities to optimize efficiency and user experience
• Upholding high engineering standards, ensuring consistency across codebases, and implementing best practices throughout your team
• Recruiting top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team to build a diverse and high-performing team
• Supporting your team members' career growth by providing insights and development opportunities tailored to their goals

Requirements:

• 4+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale
• 8+ years of full time software development experience
• Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different kinds of user needs, with the ability to empathize with users and advocate for exceptional user experiences
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a history of creatively tackling complex challenges
• Background in dealing with ambiguity and executing on multiple high-impact work streams simultaneously
• Commitment to fostering a supportive, feedback-driven, and challenging work environment
• Technical proficiency to engage thoughtfully with engineers about architecture and product design, offering valuable insights when necessary
• A mindset of autonomy and entrepreneurship, where you're excited to take responsibility and drive initiatives forward
• You have a strong product and design sense, and enjoy finding elegant solutions to complex problems
• Experience thriving in cross-functional environments, demonstrating rigorous thinking, effective decision-making, and ability to build strong cross-team relationships
• You have experience building and leading a distributed team that works across multiple locations and time zones