Engineering Manager, Invoicing

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. About the Subscriptions Core Services Team The Subscriptions Core Services team builds the high-scale, asynchronous engines at the heart of Stripe's recurring billing ecosystem. We are a rapidly growing business, managing hundreds of millions of complex financial relationships for global enterprises and providing the foundational infrastructure for Stripe Billing. With Subscriptions growing 73% year-over-year, our tech stack, teams, and capabilities are scaling in turn. This is an opportunity to be part of a fast-moving team, with hard technical problems in distributed systems, where you can have a direct impact on Stripe's rapidly growing business. The effect of AI is compounding, and we are strategically re-architecting our foundational primitives for Enterprise and Agent Readiness to ensure we can achieve the next order of magnitude in scale and velocity.

Responsibilities

• Leading engineering and design processes, coaching, mentoring, and supporting your team as they build innovative solutions.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across product, design, infrastructure, and operations to ensure alignment on projects and objectives.
• Owning problems from end-to-end by managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies, while continuously seeking opportunities to optimize efficiency and user experience. Manage technical risks related to massive traffic spikes, data consistency in distributed systems, and system observability.
• Upholding high engineering standards, ensuring consistency across codebases, and implementing best practices throughout your team.
• Recruiting top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe's recruiting team to build a diverse and high-performing team.
• Supporting your team members' career growth by providing insights and development opportunities tailored to their goals.

Requirements

• We are looking for a technical leader who has a passion for building high-reliability platforms and thrives on the challenge of scaling systems to support global commerce.
• Minimum Requirements
• 5+ years of experience managing and growing teams of engineers.
• Proven track record managing a team of 5+ software engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale.
• An ability to empathize with users and advocate for exceptional user experiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a history of creatively tackling complex challenges.
• Experience thriving in cross-functional environments, demonstrating rigorous thinking and effective decision-making.
• Background in dealing with ambiguity and executing on multiple high-impact work streams simultaneously.
• Commitment to fostering a supportive, feedback-driven, and challenging work environment.
• Technical proficiency to engage thoughtfully with engineers about architecture and product design, offering valuable insights when necessary.
• A mindset of autonomy and entrepreneurship, where you're excited to take responsibility and drive initiatives forward.
• Experience in the billing, payments, or financial automation space.
• Experience leading significant architectural migrations or system re-writes in a high-growth environment.
• A background in performance engineering or distributed systems research.
• Alignment with Stripe's Operating Principles
• If you are passionate about empowering engineers and driving impactful projects in a dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you!

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