Engineering Manager, Self Serve Direct Onboarding

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$236,000–$354,000 / yr
Posted
11 days ago
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Above market

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This role pays more than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $182,000–$267,050 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $295k versus about $225k 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 131 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 128 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Self Serve Direct Onboarding

The Engineering Manager, Self Serve Direct Onboarding leads a team focused on creating self-service experiences that guide businesses through providing information and completing required checks. You will set engineering direction, shape the team strategy, and own delivery from problem definition through rollout. This role involves turning ambiguous goals into focused plans, coaching engineers, and upholding high engineering standards across codebases. You will work on a shared product activation experience, turning complex financial, regulatory, and verification requirements into clear steps. The work involves building foundations for agent-led onboarding and user-facing products. Key requirements include engineering management experience, software development experience, and technical depth to guide architecture across user interfaces, APIs, backend workflows, and production reliability. You must align partners across product engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Operations.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $279400 from 84 postings across 24 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead engineering planning and execution in close partnership with Product and Design teams.
  • Shape the team’s strategy and roadmap by aligning partners across Risk, Compliance, and Operations.
  • Own delivery from problem definition through rollout while using experimentation to improve activation.
  • Uphold high engineering standards across all team codebases and development practices.
  • Translate ambiguous goals into focused plans and resolve cross-team dependencies.
  • Coach and mentor engineers to provide candid feedback and support their career development.
  • Partner with Recruiting to hire and build a diverse, high-performing engineering team.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of engineering management experience directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers building and shipping products at scale.
  • 8+ years of full-time software development experience.
  • Experience building user-facing products with strong user empathy and product judgment.
  • Experience turning ambiguous goals into clear priorities and delivering work that depends on multiple teams.
  • A track record of coaching engineers, supporting their growth, and building an environment of candid feedback, inclusion, and shared ownership.
  • Technical depth to guide architecture and make pragmatic tradeoffs across user interfaces, APIs, backend workflows, and production reliability.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to align technical and nontechnical partners with different priorities and constraints.
  • Experience simplifying complex customer journeys, modernizing established architectures, or shipping AI-assisted workflows (preferred).

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