Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager For Billing ConfigurationStripe 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 Billing Configuration team enables extensibility of all Billing concepts and owns the core infrastructure needed to manage configuration changes over time and custom billing logic use cases.As the engineering manager for Billing Configuration, you'll own the operational and technical direction of the platforms that let Stripe users and internal teams model, customize, and evolve how billing works. You'll lead the team building the foundational configuration layer for Stripe Billing, enabling flexible products, pricing, eligibility, entitlements, and billing behavior. This team enables complex custom use cases and configuration changes over time. You'll shape the team as it expands to support increasingly sophisticated use cases, working closely with internal and external customers to build reliable, extensible systems that make Stripe Billing adaptable to the real world.Responsibilities include:Leading a team responsible for the core architecture needed to enable billing configuration complexity and extensibilityOwning the technical strategy and roadmap for billing configurationDriving operational excellence across billing infrastructure systemsHiring and developing engineers as the team expands into new scopePartnering with stakeholders across organizations to deliver billing solutionsWorking backwards from internal and external customer needs to define priorities and scopeDefining and upholding engineering standards across a team owning business-critical billing infrastructureWe'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.Minimum requirements include:4+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale8+ years of full-time software development experienceTrack record of leading engineering teams responsible for high-traffic, low-latency, and extensible systemsDeep user empathy with a history of working backwards from internal and external customer needsProven ability to drive rigorous decision-making and build strong partnerships across teamsAbility to handle ambiguity, creatively solve complex challenges, and execute on competing high-impact prioritiesDemonstrated focus on system reliability, operational health, and incident responsePreferred qualifications include:Experience building and leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zonesTrack record of delivering shared infrastructure across multiple business unitsBackground in billing, metering, or large-scale distributed systems