Engineering Manager, Connect

We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Connect team. As an Engineering Manager at Stripe, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of your team and the broader organisation. You will lead a distributed full-stack engineering team working across APIs, frontend surfaces, and data pipelines that directly impact platform satisfaction and retention.

Responsibilities:

• Leading engineering and design processes, coaching, mentoring, and supporting your team as they build innovative solutions.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and operations to ensure alignment on projects and objectives and shaping the team’s strategy and roadmap.
• Owning problems from end-to-end by managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies, while continuously seeking opportunities to optimise efficiency and user experience.
• 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.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale.
• 8+ years of full-time software development experience.
• Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different kinds of user needs, with the ability to empathise with users and advocate for exceptional user experiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a history of creatively tackling complex challenges.
• 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.