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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
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The Engineering Manager, Checkout Optimization leads a team within the Checkout Optimization group, which serves as the growth team for checkout user interfaces. This role involves managing a team of full-stack product and data engineers to build high-converting, personalized checkout experiences for buyers and agents. Key responsibilities include providing hands-on technical leadership in architecture, design, and requirements setting while overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery. The manager will build and evolve a data platform to support reliable, self-serve analysis and experimentation. The work focuses on optimizing checkout conversion through an ML-powered engine, developing agentic commerce for agent buyers, and supporting rapidly growing AI companies. Required skills include backend development, experience leading growth teams, and expertise in building extensible software solutions at scale.
What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?
Median $279400 from 84 postings across 24 companies.
Lead and manage a team of full-stack product and data engineers through mentorship and guidance.
Prioritize workstreams based on buyer and agent needs to deliver high-quality checkout experiences.
Lead experimentation and optimization work to improve checkout conversion and buyer experiences.
Build and evolve the data platform to enable reliable, self-serve analysis and product decisions.
Drive the execution of projects from planning to delivery while maintaining high standards for quality and reliability.
Provide hands-on technical leadership including architecture, design, requirements setting, and incident response.
Set the team’s direction by defining the north star vision, goals, OKRs, and roadmap.
Recruit top engineering talent to build a diverse and high-performing team.
What we're looking for
5+ years of engineering management experience directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers building products at scale.
10+ years of full-time software development experience with a strong background in backend development.
Experience working across geographies.
Experience leading growth or product teams that have used experimentation to drive product usage and other metrics.
Experience building extensible, leveraged software solutions that scale to different kinds of user needs while advocating for excellent user experiences.
Previous experience working in payments and on payments technology (preferred).
Previous experience leading a growth team (preferred).
Previous experience leading a data engineering team (preferred).