Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers, drive technical vision, and advance service oriented architecture adoption at Stripe.

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.

About the team

The Service Platform org is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing our payment systems, fraud detection, and a multitude of other products.

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager within this organization, you will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs, and advance service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption at Stripe.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of talented engineers on the team, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success.
Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high quality solutions that meet user needs.
Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.
Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure’s key engineering initiatives.
Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design, vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes) for your reports.
Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe’s services roadmap.
Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team.
Partners with our recruiting team to attract and hire top talent, and define the overall hiring strategies for your team.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.

Minimum requirements

3+ years of experience as an Engineering manager
Technical enough to drive clarity with staff engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions.
Experience managing teams that shipped and operated critical distributed system infrastructure.
Experience managing engineering teams working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products).
Works effectively cross-functionally and is able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and tradeoffs.
Encourages a healthy work environment that’s both challenging and supportive.

Preferred qualifications

5+ years of management experience
Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).
Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc).
Experience leading partially remote teams.
Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs.
Experience building serverless platforms
Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on call rotations.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of talented engineers on the team, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success.

Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high quality solutions that meet user needs.

Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.

Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure’s key engineering initiatives.

Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design, vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes) for your reports.

Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe’s services roadmap.

Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team.

Partners with our recruiting team to attract and hire top talent, and define the overall hiring strategies for your team.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.

Minimum requirements

3+ years of experience as an Engineering manager

Technical enough to drive clarity with staff engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions.

Experience managing teams that shipped and operated critical distributed system infrastructure.

Experience managing engineering teams working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products).

Works effectively cross-functionally and is able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and tradeoffs.

Encourages a healthy work environment that’s both challenging and supportive.

Preferred qualifications

5+ years of management experience

Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).

Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc).

Experience leading partially remote teams.

Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs.

Experience building serverless platforms

Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on call rotations.