Engineering Manager - LPM Foundations

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead the LPM Foundations team at the center of Stripe's long-term payments growth strategy. You will translate regional and strategic priorities into a focused platform roadmap, shape technical direction with your team, and drive execution across the systems behind critical payment flows.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and roadmap for platform capabilities that help LPM teams build, integrate, and operate payment methods at scale.
• Lead engineers in designing and delivering reliable, self-service foundations that simplify complex integrations and speed up launches.
• Build an AI-first engineering organization: develop the platform hooks and working practices that enable agentic development and help teams use AI to improve execution and product-engineering decisions.
• Partner closely with customers, engineering, product, partnerships, legal, operations, and other stakeholders to align priorities and deliver end-to-end outcomes.
• Drive clear technical and architectural decisions with staff engineers, balancing reliability, extensibility, velocity, and regional payments complexity.
• Lead and improve the team's operating processes so it can execute effectively and engage well with the rest of Stripe.
• Recruit, develop, and retain great engineers; support their growth and help build a challenging, supportive, and inclusive team culture.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe's engineering management team.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience managing teams that shipped high-quality products.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
• A track record of recruiting, developing, and building great engineering teams.
• The ability to work effectively across functions, think rigorously, communicate clearly, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs.
• Technical acumen to partner with staff engineers on architecture and technical strategy.
• Experience creating a healthy and inclusive work environment that is both challenging and supportive.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building platforms, developer products, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience applying AI to software development, engineering workflows, or product delivery, with strong judgment about where it creates durable value.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for leadership, users, and company-wide audiences.
• A strong quantitative and analytical background.
• Experience leading fully remote or distributed teams.