Engineering Manager, Platform

Stripe

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$236,000–$354,000 / yr
Posted
120 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $206k
This role $295k
$120k most similar roles pay here $379k

This role pays more than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $166,462–$245,287 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $295k versus about $206k 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, Platform

As the Engineering Manager, Platform (Privy), you will lead the Wallet Platform team to build and maintain the primitives and developer-facing surfaces for the company's core wallet product. You will manage a small team while staying hands-on with architecture, pull requests, and design documents to ensure high reliability, performance, and usability. The role involves developing infrastructure such as AWS Nitro Enclaves, webhooks, and secure transaction submission systems. You will utilize technologies including Node, React, and AWS to build scalable blockchain abstractions and low-latency APIs. This position requires a product-minded leader who can navigate complex technical trade-offs while balancing long-term platform stability with immediate developer needs. The work focuses on solving infrastructure challenges related to wallet technology, custody, signing, and crypto infrastructure to facilitate secure transactions for mainstream and crypto-native users.

What does a Engineering Manager earn?

Median $267050 from 138 postings across 39 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Set the technical direction for the core capabilities of Privy's wallet platform.
  • Ensure high reliability and performance to maintain "four nines" uptime for the wallet system.
  • Define durable interfaces and roadmaps by collaborating with Product, Security, and engineering teams.
  • Build and ship scalable systems that balance immediate product needs with long-term infrastructure goals.
  • Perform hands-on technical leadership through code reviews, design document reviews, and solving complex problems.
  • Manage and coach a team of engineers while fostering a culture of ownership and urgency.
  • Translate platform decisions regarding reliability and performance into positive developer and customer outcomes.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in engineering management and developing other engineers.
  • Deep backend or platform experience to evaluate architecture and system tradeoffs.
  • Ability to set technical direction for complex platform capabilities.
  • Proficiency in ensuring high reliability, performance, and scalability of systems.
  • Ability to translate product needs into durable interfaces and clear roadmaps.
  • Experience with wallet, custody, signing, or crypto infrastructure is a plus.
  • Capability to perform code reviews and participate in design document reviews.
  • Ability to balance long-term platform foundations with immediate product requirements.

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