Engineering Manager, Checkout Optimization

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, ILSouth San Francisco, CA
Salary
$236,000–$354,000 / yr
Posted
14 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $212k
This role $295k
$140k most similar roles pay here $377k

This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $168,212–$255,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $295k versus about $212k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 173 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 171 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Checkout Optimization

As an Engineering Manager, Checkout Optimization, you will lead a team of full-stack product and data engineers to build high-converting, personalized checkout experiences for buyers and agents. You will manage the entire development lifecycle, from planning to delivery, while providing hands-on technical leadership in architecture, design, and incident response. The role involves building and evolving a data platform that supports experimentation, optimization, and data-informed product decisions across the checkout suite. You will work with cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Data Science, and Data Engineering to solve problems related to agentic commerce and optimizations for AI companies. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, recruiting talent, and driving high standards for reliability and usability. The role requires expertise in backend development, growth team leadership, and building scalable software solutions that leverage an ML-powered optimization engine.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $290250 from 64 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Manage and mentor a team of full-stack product and data engineers to ensure their success.
  • Prioritize workstreams based on buyer and agent needs to deliver high-quality checkout experiences.
  • Lead experimentation and optimization efforts to improve conversion rates and user experience.
  • Build and evolve the data platform to enable reliable analysis and informed product decisions.
  • Ensure high standards for the quality, reliability, and usability of data products and pipelines.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership including architecture design, requirement setting, and incident response.
  • Drive project execution across the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery.
  • Define team direction through north star visions, OKRs, and product roadmaps.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of engineering management experience managing teams of 5+ engineers.
  • 10+ years of full-time software development experience with a strong backend background.
  • Experience working across different geographic locations.
  • Experience leading growth or product teams using experimentation to drive metrics.
  • Experience building scalable, extensible software solutions while advocating for user experience.
  • Preferred experience in payments and payment technology.
  • Preferred experience specifically leading a growth team.
  • Preferred experience leading a data engineering team.

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