Geared toward experienced engineering managers comfortable with building extensible billing systems and leading cross-functional teams.
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Original posting from Stripe
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 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.
What you'll do
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
Lead a team responsible for the core architecture needed to enable billing configuration complexity and extensibility
Own the technical strategy and roadmap for billing configuration
Drive operational excellence across billing infrastructure systems
Hire and develop engineers as the team expands into new scope
Partner with stakeholders across organizations to deliver billing solutions
Work backwards from internal and external customer needs to define priorities and scope
Define and uphold engineering standards across a team owning business-critical billing infrastructure
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, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale
8+ years of full-time software development experience
Track record of leading engineering teams responsible for high-traffic, low-latency, and extensible systems
Deep user empathy with a history of working backwards from internal and external customer needs
Proven ability to drive rigorous decision-making and build strong partnerships across teams
Ability to handle ambiguity, creatively solve complex challenges, and execute on competing high-impact priorities
Demonstrated focus on system reliability, operational health, and incident response
Preferred qualifications
Experience building and leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones
Track record of delivering shared infrastructure across multiple business units
Background in billing, metering, or large-scale distributed systems
Source: Stripe careers