[Hiring] Engineering Manager - Payments @Stripe

Role Description

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

• Enable the team to work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end.
• Support the engineering team in building experiences for businesses that range from high growth startups to leading global companies providing them with the tools so they can run their business and not worry about tax.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing and operations.
• Lead and manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe.
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team.
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience managing teams that shipped high-quality products.
• An entrepreneurial mindset.
• Successfully recruited and built great teams.
• Works effectively cross-functionally and is able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs.
• Thrives with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
• Technical acumen to drive clarity with staff engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions.
• Encourage a healthy and inclusive work environment that’s both challenging and supportive.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).
• Strong quantitative and analytical background.
• Productively lead fully remote teams.