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About the Role

The API Platform team is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing Stripe's payment systems, fraud detection, and other products. As an infrastructure team, you will build and expand service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable. You will build powerful interfaces for engineers that depend on these systems—deployment, load balancers, web framework, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes—while keeping them highly available and performant. We're looking for engineering leaders who drive the technical vision of Stripe's service infrastructure platform for thousands of engineers to use and build on top of, and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision
Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user needs
Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure's key engineering initiatives
Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture and design, vision, direction, and requirements setting, and incident response processes) for team members
Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe's services roadmap
Build a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team

Requirements

12+ years of technical experience
5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role
Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g., building internal or external developer products)
Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers
Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth
Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding
Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication
Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset
Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to a high level of psychological safety for all team members and partners
Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go)
Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide)
Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc.)
Experience leading partially remote and distributed teams
Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs
Experience building serverless platforms
Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on-call rotations
Genuine curiosity about areas that are less familiar

Skills

API design
Abstractions
Frameworks
Client libraries
Infrastructure development
Product development
Java
Ruby
Python
Go
Databases
Logging
Event streams
Metrics
Caching
Serverless platforms
Incident response
Problem-solving
Critical thinking
Communication

Experience Level

12+ years of technical experience
5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role

About the Company

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.