About the Role
As an Engineering Manager on the Terminal Commerce Experience team, you'll launch and scale Unified Commerce experiences within Stripe Terminal, drive new end-customer and merchant features, and build POS integrations from the ground up to support large-scale enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Work with leaders across Stripe to create and drive toward the vision of Unified Commerce, bringing in-person and online payments together
- Drive the roadmap and priorities for your team, and work with dependencies across the company
- Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability
- Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of Stripe
- Recruit excellent engineers in collaboration with the Stripe recruiting team and develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers
- Understand core Stripe APIs, influence design to interplay with card-present payments, and build a platform for Unified Commerce with your team
- Empower and guide your team to build and scale integrations and core abstractions across payment methods, gift cards, and point-of-sale connectors for large-scale enterprise
- Drive table stakes features like surcharging and tipping across Enterprise and SaaS platform merchants
Requirements
- A strong technical background with 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership across mobile, API, and backend development teams and demonstrated broad technical leadership
- Experience building diverse teams to tackle challenging technical problems
- An understanding of the impact of AI and a strong product mindset to turn emerging capabilities into clear customer and business value
- Experience thriving in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Understanding of how to build and manage scalable, resilient, and observable systems across the stack
- The ability to listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
- The ability to put yourself in the shoes of our merchants and users
- Experience leading large technical projects with internal and external dependencies and impact across many teams
- Industry experience building or managing teams who have built in-person checkout experiences or payment method integrations
- Experience with in-person payments hardware and software such as card readers and firmware
- A deep understanding of the payments industry as a whole
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership
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.
- As a platform company powering businesses all over the world, Stripe processes payments, runs marketplaces, detects fraud, helps entrepreneurs start internet businesses from anywhere in the world, builds world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more.
- The engineering teams at Stripe work on the business logic for all of that.
- As a software engineering manager at Stripe, you'll lead teams that build and expand APIs, services, and experiences.
- You'll also work with partners to launch new markets and vertical capabilities.
- Stripe Terminal helps our users extend their online presence to the physical world.
- The mission of the Terminal team is to make it as easy for businesses to accept in-person payments as the Stripe API has done for online payments—building for Unified Commerce.
- With Terminal, businesses can unify their in-person and online experiences, unlocking payments use cases that are right for their business model—whether it's creating a modern retail experience, extending their website to a pop-up store, or enabling a modern point-of-sale at their next event.
- Within Terminal, the Commerce team focuses on the following to help make Unified Commerce a reality for businesses across the globe.
- Enterprise features—on-reader forms, tipping, gift cards
- Payment features—DCC, surcharge, multi-capture
- Point-of-sale integrations—enterprise-focused integrations
- Low-code and no-code—solutions that will enable our users to onboard quickly
