Engineering Manager, Payments

July 17, 2026

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Description:

Work with Stripe leaders to define and author the card payments strategy.
Develop and mentor engineers, supporting their career growth.
Drive technical productivity, reliability, and simplicity across the engineering team.
Manage team processes and help the team collaborate effectively with the rest of Stripe.
Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as part of Stripe’s engineering management team.
Recruit and hire strong engineers in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team.
Help the team make significant strategic, product, and technical decisions for card payments.
Support the creation of systems that enable a single Stripe integration to process payments across multiple card networks globally.

Requirements:

3+ years of experience in an engineering management role.
8+ years of full-time software development experience.
Demonstrated success hiring, developing, and mentoring engineers.
Ability to lead by example in fast-paced, high-impact, and ambiguous environments.
Commitment to high operational rigor when working with production systems.
Experience building extensible software solutions that scale with business growth.
Ability to thrive in a collaborative, cross-functional, and cross-timezone environment while fostering a positive team culture.
Experience with payments-related products (preferred).
Experience working in global and cross-regional environments (preferred).
Experience using AI tools to improve team execution, quality, and effectiveness (preferred).
Experience building new teams (preferred).
Experience developing product platforms that serve other product teams (preferred).
Proven track record collaborating with partners across multiple regions and time zones (preferred).
Comfort with user-facing responsibilities (preferred).

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