Engineering Manager, Webhooks & Events

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

When something interesting happens on Stripe, like a new subscription being created, or a payment being successfully processed, we programmatically notify our users using Webhooks. In the asynchronous world of financial infrastructure, these events are a mission critical part of our merchant’s businesses.

As part of the API Events team, you will work closely with partners in product and infrastructure to deliver a world class product experience to our merchants. We are dreaming up new ways of letting our users extend Stripe in a secure and reliable way, and we want your help delivering this platform to fit the evolving needs of our users.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions
• Manage a team of senior engineers and help develop their careers with stretch responsibilities and excellent feedback
• Set and execute a vision that extends the possibilities of what our users can do on and off of Stripe
• Work with engineering leaders in your org and across Stripe to build scalable and automated systems and make the right foundational investments
• Empower your engineering team to deliver a high level of technical quality and impact
• Recruit a diverse team of engineers that are amongst the best in the industry, from outreach to closing
• 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

• Minimum 2 years of direct Engineering Management experience
• Have experience hiring, growing, and developing engineers
• Lead by example in fast-paced, high-impact, ambiguous environments
• Have experience building scalable software and backend systems
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• Thrive in a collaborative cross-functional environment and fostering a great culture within a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication

Preferred qualifications

• Experience developing and shaping externally facing products
• Experience at productively leading hybrid (in-office + remote) teams
• Experience building systems to deliver Webhooks
• Experience across a variety of infrastructure systems like distributed databases, service frameworks, async processing services etc