Engineering Manager, Mobile Development Productivity

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Engineering Manager will lead the Mobile Development Productivity engineering team, set its technical strategy, and oversee platforms for mobile development environments, continuous integration, testing, and secure build and release workflows. The role also focuses on improving mobile engineering productivity and enabling AI agents to participate effectively in mobile development.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, support, and grow a team of engineers by hiring, coaching, mentoring, and creating opportunities for development
• Define the team’s technical strategy, goals, and roadmap, translating organizational priorities and internal user needs into clear execution plans
• Partner with mobile product teams, infrastructure teams, and technical leaders to identify shared development challenges and align stakeholders around reusable solutions
• Collaborate with staff engineers on architecture and strategic technical decisions across development environments, continuous integration, automated testing, and secure build and release systems
• Establish high standards for reliability, security, engineering craft, and operational rigor across the systems the team owns
• Improve the experience of mobile engineers and AI agents by using measures of developer productivity, build and test performance, and release health to guide investments
• Work effectively with geographically distributed colleagues to maintain alignment, visibility, and clear ownership across teams

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years of engineering management experience
• Experience leading teams that build platforms, frameworks, infrastructure, or tools used by other engineers
• Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy, guide architecture decisions, and translate ambiguous goals into a clear roadmap and execution plan
• Proven success hiring, coaching, and developing engineers while fostering an inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment
• Ability to align and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, communicate clearly across varied audiences, and coordinate difficult decisions and tradeoffs
• Experience managing a developer productivity, developer platform, mobile infrastructure, or internal tools team
• Experience building or operating development environments, continuous integration systems, automated testing frameworks, or build and release infrastructure
• Experience with iOS, Android, React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform, mobile SDKs, or device-integrated software