Engineering Manager, Stripe
Banking as a Service
$224.3-336.5k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$224.3-336.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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