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 Service Platform org is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing our payment systems, fraud detection, and a multitude of other products. As an infrastructure team, you will build and expand the service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable. We build powerful interfaces for engineers that depend on these systems—deployment, load balancers, web framework, databases, Kafka and Kubernetes—while keeping them highly available and performant. We're looking for engineering leaders who can drive the technical vision of Stripe's service infrastructure platform for thousands of engineers to use and build on top of, and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces.
This team is distributed across multiple EMEA locations (Dublin and Romania).
What you'll do
You will join as a Technical Lead for one of the most impactful teams at Stripe. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs, and advance service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption at Stripe. By collaborating with the team's technical leaders, you will ensure the software your team builds meets the needs of Stripe and its customers.
We are a highly effective team that consistently delivers high-impact results while genuinely caring for one another. We expect you to bring your curiosity and critical thinking skills to this challenging domain.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success.
- Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision.
- Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high quality solutions that meet user needs.
- Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.
- Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure's key engineering initiatives.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for team members.
- Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe's services roadmap.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the 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.
- 10+ years of technical experience or 7+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering field.
- 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
- Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries.
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers.
- Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
- Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding.
- Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
- Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication.
- Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset.
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people.
- Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go).
Preferred qualifications
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences.
- Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms.
- Experience leading partially remote teams.
- Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs.
- Experience building serverless platforms.
- Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on call rotations.
It's not expected that you'll have deep expertise in every dimension above, but you should be interested in learning any of the areas that are less familiar.
Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users.
The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €126,400 - €189,600. This range may change if you are hired in another location.
Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant's location.
At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.
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