Job description
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.
About the team
The Frontend Infrastructure Engineering team is a high impact, high leverage, and high visibility team that supports the productivity of Stripe’s user interface engineers. The team creates and supports cross cutting infrastructural libraries, services, and utilities; establishes and enforces clean coding patterns; makes sweeping code changes that improve the quality of code at Stripe; and improves build times and reliability.
That’s not easy. We work with a code base of several million lines of code (and counting), used by thousands of engineers across the globe and we must focus at many levels of the stack. It’s not easy, but it’s rewarding and what we do is key to allowing Stripe engineers working in our products to have the most productive time of their careers.
What you’ll do
- Lead a team of engineers and guide the team in making good technical and prioritization decisions
- Empower the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical productivity, reliability, and simplicity
- Be empathetic to immediate internal customer needs but visionary enough to not just deliver a faster horse
- Work with geographically distributed engineers as well as with other Stripe leaders to design and lead developer productivity best practices
- Recruit great engineers in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
- Help engineers advance in their careers and develop new skills
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team
Who you are
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.
Minimum requirements
- 4+ years of engineering management experience
- 6+ years product or developer productivity experience as an engineer or manager
- A passion for supporting developer productivity
- Comfortable with a high degree autonomy to figure out what your internal customers need and accountability to justify your prioritization decisions
Preferred qualifications
- Hands on experience doing front end development
- Hands on experience doing developer tooling
