Engineering Manager, Money as a Service (MaaS)

Stripe
Singapore
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior engineering leaders with product vision who can build and scale teams in the financial infrastructure domain, especially in APAC markets.

Best fit for

  • Senior engineering leaders with experience launching financial products in new markets and scaling teams from zero.
    — “Experience taking a product or team from zero to one: a new market, a new product line, or a team you built and scaled”
  • Candidates with deep technical expertise in distributed systems and a strong product sense to align with user and market needs.
    — “Strong technical depth to engage credibly on architecture, reliability, and tradeoffs in complex distributed systems”
  • Individuals who can manage cross-functional collaboration and navigate global time zones effectively.
    — “Experience working with distributed partner teams across US, European, and APAC time zones”

Things to consider

  • This role demands a high level of hands-on technical involvement and accountability for product outcomes.
    — “Be accountable for the team's output: what ships, when, and how well it works for users”
  • Candidates must be prepared to work closely with legal, compliance, and partnerships teams.
    — “Operate as a peer owner of the business outcome alongside product, go-to-market, legal, compliance, and partnerships”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in building and leading teams in new markets, especially APAC.
    — “APAC Money as a Service (MaaS) is a newly formed team, based in Singapore”
  • Emphasize your ability to translate user and market needs into engineering priorities.
    — “Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user and market needs into engineering priorities”
  • Showcase your track record in hiring, developing, and retaining top engineering talent.
    — “A track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers and building a high-performing, inclusive team”
  • Demonstrate your hands-on technical engagement with code, product usage, and system architecture.
    — “Stay hands-on and in the details: read the code, review designs, use the product the way our users do”
  • Frame your experience in building operating systems and processes for new teams.
    — “Build the operating system for a newly formed team: hiring, rituals, quality bar, on-call”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • led multiple pods and grew the team
  • accountable for team's output
  • owned engineering side of a zero-to-one charter
  • operated as a peer owner of the business outcome
  • stayed hands-on and in the details
Typical background
3+ years of engineering management experience and 8+ years of software engineering experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Engineering ManagementSoftware EngineeringProduct ManagementTeam BuildingTechnical DepthHiring And Development

Preferred

Money ManagementAPAC Market Knowledge

About the role

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

Stripe's Money Management products (Financial Accounts, Treasury, Global Payouts, Issuing, and Capital) let businesses and platforms hold, move, spend, and earn on their money using the same infrastructure they already use for payments. APAC Money as a Service (MaaS) is a newly formed team, based in Singapore, responsible for bringing this product suite to Asia-Pacific markets, enabling global businesses and platforms to use these capabilities directly or offer them to their APAC users, and building the local rails, compliance, and partner integrations that make it all work.

In this role, you'll make some of the most significant strategic, product, and technical decisions for money management in Asia-Pacific at Stripe. The systems this team builds let businesses and platforms integrate with Stripe once, then open accounts, move money, and issue cards across an expanding set of APAC markets and currencies, and grow across the region without rebuilding their stack for each country.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

Lead multiple pods and grow the team.

Be accountable for the team's output: what ships, when, and how well it works for users.

Own the engineering side of a zero-to-one charter. Turn an ambiguous regional strategy into a sequenced, de-risked roadmap, make the build, integrate, or partner calls, and get launches over the line across licensing, bank and network partners, and compliance.

Operate as a peer owner of the business outcome alongside product, go-to-market, legal, compliance, and partnerships. Bring a product point of view, and push back when the plan is wrong.

Stay hands-on and in the details: read the code, review designs, use the product the way our users do, and understand how Stripe's money movement stack works end to end so you can make sound technical calls under uncertainty.

Build the operating system for a newly formed team: hiring, rituals, quality bar, on-call, and the processes that let the team move fast while keeping money movement safe and reliable.

Hire great engineers, develop them, and give direct, timely feedback.

Who you are

We're looking for someone with a founder's mindset: high agency, comfortable with ambiguity, and biased toward shipping. You've built something from nothing, you know what it takes to launch a product in a new market, and you don't wait for a perfect spec or for permission. You care about users and the product as much as about the code, and you'd rather own an outcome than a process. Applicants must meet minimum requirements; preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a bar.

Minimum requirements

3+ years of engineering management experience and 8+ years of software engineering experience

Experience taking a product or team from zero to one: a new market, a new product line, or a team you built and scaled

A track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers and building a high-performing, inclusive team

Strong technical depth to engage credibly on architecture, reliability, and tradeoffs in complex distributed systems

Strong product judgment and the ability to translate user and market needs into engineering priorities

Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders across time zones

Preferred qualifications

Experience in payments, banking, or money movement, especially launching regulated financial products (accounts, payouts, cards, or lending) in new markets

Experience operating in APAC markets, including working with local banks, networks, or regulators

Founder, founding engineer, or early-stage startup experience

Experience working with distributed partner teams across US, European, and APAC time zones

Experience using AI tools to improve execution, quality, and team effectiveness

Source: Stripe careers

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