Frontend Engineering Manager

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.

• 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 optimised, 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 optimisations for our payment surfaces.
• Mobile: We empower businesses of all sizes with cutting‑edge mobile payment solutions. Our team focuses on building world‑class SDKs for iOS, Android, and React Native that power seamless payment experiences in millions of apps globally. As a leader in this dynamic environment, you will drive strategy, prioritise initiatives, and cultivate technical excellence while helping to shape the future of mobile commerce.

• Lead engineering and design processes, coach, mentor, and support your team as they build innovative, user‑facing solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and operations to ensure alignment on projects and objectives, shaping the team’s strategy and roadmap.
• Uphold high engineering standards, particularly for frontend craftsmanship, user experience, and performance, ensuring consistency across codebases and implementing best practices throughout your team.
• Own problems from end‑to‑end by managing diverse systems, processes, and technologies while continuously seeking opportunities to optimise efficiency and user experience.
• Recruit top engineering talent in partnership with Stripe’s recruiting team to build a diverse and high‑performing team.
• Support 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 empathise 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 entrepreneurship, where you're excited to take responsibility and drive initiatives forward.

• You have a strong product and design sense…