Engineering Manager
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Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
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. As an infrastructure team you will build and expand the service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use resilient and scalable. We build powerful interfaces for engineers that depend on these systemsdeployment load balancers web framework databases Kafka and Kuberneteswhile keeping them highly available and performant. Were looking for engineering leaders who can drive the technical vision of Stripes service infrastructure platform for thousands of engineers to use and build on top of and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces.
What youll 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 of projects overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.
- Work with highvisibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructures key engineering initiatives.
- Provide handson 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 Stripes 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
Were 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
- 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 crossfunctionally and is able to think rigorously communicate effectively and make or coordinate hard decisions and tradeoffs.
- Encourages a healthy work environment thats both challenging and supportive.
Preferred qualifications
- 5 years of management experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership users companywide).
- Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases logging event streams metrics caching etc).
- Experience leading partially remote teams.
- Experience developing sustainable inhouse framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs.
- Experience building serverless platforms
- Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on call rotations.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
