Engineering Manager, Local Payment Methods

About the role

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

The payments landscape is changing rapidly and our team is at the forefront of this change. Depending on where you live, you may be used to paying with a credit card (United States), iDeal (Netherlands) or UPI (India), amongst hundreds of other global payment methods. It turns out how you pay is increasingly dependent on where you are and what business you're buying from. The Local Payment Methods team is responsible for Stripe's fastest growing payments business. We build payment methods that help businesses drastically increase their revenues and grow their business. Undergirding all of this we also build the platform that allows us to build and distribute payment methods at scale

What you’ll do

Engineering Managers at Stripe are responsible for the success of their team. You’ll be deeply involved in the engineering and design processes as well as coaching, mentoring, and leading the team. You’ll have a deep understanding of how to drive efficient engineering teams and you’ll have a strong user-focus. You’ll be working with engineers on creating technical solutions and communicating effectively across teams and senior leadership. 

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.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design, vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes) for your reports.
• Set the team’s direction, from north star vision, to goals/OKRs, and roadmap. Align with the broader MaaS organization, and our customers
• Drive execution on the roadmap, making sure we deliver big bets, but stay noble to an ever-changing environment
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Partner 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. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 5+ years of management experience with a total of 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Has built products before, and wants to be involved in product development
• Experience leading a team with multiple workstreams
• Technical enough to drive clarity with staff engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions.
• Works effectively cross-functionally and is able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and tradeoffs. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide). 
• Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on call rotations.
• Encourages a healthy work environment that’s both challenging and supportive

Preferred qualifications

• Previous experiences working on banking products, if not payments