Engineering Manager, API

Who we are 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, 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 Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently, create new payment and payout methods, and utilize their vaulted credentials across the internet.

The team is looking for an engineering leader that is able to be both technically involved as well as engaged in developing the strategy for the organization and the people.

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the team at the forefront of delivering best‑in‑class Checkout services that power Elements with Checkout Session and define and drive our payment integrations into the future. You will work closely with Optimized Checkout teams, playing a critical role in owning the strategy and execution of our core Checkout primitives. Your leadership will ensure we balance rapid innovation with the five‑nines reliability required to support the world’s largest enterprises and the growing global economy.

This is a role for a strategic leader who excels at navigating complex technical and product challenges. You will drive the evolution of our Checkout services, helping to abstract immense complexity into simple, powerful integrations for our users. Beyond the immediate technical goals, you will be a cultural pillar for the team, mentoring the next generation of technical leaders and shaping an engineering and product vision that defines the future of commerce.

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large‑scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
• Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Stripe system realities, and numerous stakeholders’ preferences and concerns
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as experts product, design, infrastructure, and operations
• Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe

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.

• 3+ years of experience in an engineering management role.
• 8+ years of full‑time software development experience.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully hiring, developing, and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to lead by example in fast‑paced, high‑impact, and ambiguous environments.
• Commitment to high operational rigor when working with production systems.
• Experience building extensible software solutions that scale with business growth.
• Adept at thriving in a collaborative, cross‑functional, and cross‑timezone environment, while fostering a positive team culture.

Office‑assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in‑office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office.

Also, some teams have greater in‑office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which…