Frontend Engineering Manager

Who we are

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, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

The Product and Business Engineering organization manages Stripe's core financial products, develops tools for efficient payment acceptance and risk management, and creates solutions that empower businesses to optimize their revenue operations. Within this organization, we are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one of our high-impact frontend-focused teams:
Payins Dashboard or Web Elements.

• Payins Dashboard:
  Our team oversees some of the highest-trafficked surfaces that merchants interact with each day in the Stripe Dashboard. We are dedicated to providing an exceptional user experience through craftsmanship, ensuring our users can focus on what truly matters: growing their businesses. You will lead a team of superb frontend engineers, helping further our mission to deeply understand and facilitate the user journey of managing a payment over its lifecycle.
• Web Elements:
  We are passionate about helping merchants build highly optimized, delightful checkout experiences. The team is directly responsible for Stripe’s Web Elements, a suite of rich, customizable UI components that enable users to build complex checkout flows with a simple integration. As an engineering manager, you’ll lead a team focused on building high-quality UIs and delivering data-driven optimizations for our payment surfaces.

As an Engineering Manager at Stripe, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of your team and the broader organization.

• Leading engineering and design processes, coaching, mentoring, and supporting your team as they build innovative, user-facing 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.
• Upholding high engineering standards, particularly for frontend craftsmanship, user experience, and performance, ensuring consistency across codebases, and implementing best practices throughout your team.
• Owning problems from end-to-end by managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies, while continuously seeking opportunities to optimize efficiency and user experience.
• 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.

We’re 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.

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale.
• 10+ years of full time software development experience, with a strong background in full‑stack or frontend web development.
• Experience leading teams that have shipped and maintained critical user‑facing products.
• Strong technical proficiency to engage thoughtfully with engineers about architecture and product design, with a particular focus on modern web technologies, performance, and user experience.
• Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different kinds of user needs, with the ability to empathize with users and advocate for exceptional user experiences.
• Strong problem‑solving skills, with a history of creatively tackling complex challenges and dealing with ambiguity.
• Commitment to fostering a supportive, feedback‑driven, and challenging work environment.
• A mindset of autonomy and…