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
Stripe builds economic infrastructure for the internet. We’re moving beyond payments and “up the stack” to help our users run their businesses more effectively. Issuing is developing new APIs to empower businesses to launch physical and virtual card programs. We aim to help businesses deploy novel use cases that rely on fully programmable payment instruments.
What you’ll do
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Issuing Authorizations Engineering team. You’ll be responsible for expanding and developing the team. You’ll drive pillar vision and roadmap. You’ll lead our coordination with product teams, operations teams, and other engineering teams at Stripe. We’re looking for a leader with a strong background in building scalable products. We need someone who is comfortable in a fast-moving environment with lots of moving pieces.
Responsibilities
- Be actively involved in strategic direction, product decisions, roadmap shaping for an emerging business
- Iterate rapidly on features, tooling, and processes as we launch first versions of new products
- Driving technical direction to work through tech stack evolutions
- Work closely with our users and financial partners on a daily basis
- Design, build, and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems
- Make and adapt prioritization and staffing decisions as the team, business, and user demands progress.
- Engineer solutions across systems such as core money-movement infrastructure, data pipelines, banking systems, and more
- Grow, develop, recruit, and hire for an amazing team of engineers
Who you are
- You think of yourself as entrepreneurial and enjoy moving quickly on new, green-field products
- You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
- You enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise. Almost every role at Stripe collaborates with some engineers, from Sales and Support in sharing feedback from our customers, to Legal and Accounting in supporting our systems for tracking money movement and reporting around the world
We’re 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
- 5+ years of engineering management experience
- 10+ years of overall software development experience
- Experience building new, diverse teams to tackle challenging technical problems
- Experience managing senior talent
- Experience working in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
