Engineering Manager, Financial Crimes Engineering

Who we are

About Stripe

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

Financial Crimes Engineering focuses on increasing the legitimate GDP of the internet by building tools and systems that help us detect, investigate, and ban criminals to protect users, Stripe, and the broader financial ecosystem. As part of the broader Risk Engineering org we leverage and collaborate on scalable abstractions and platforms while focusing deeply on applying them to the rich and nuanced domain of Financial Crimes. We are at the early stages of taking a new approach to how we build, operate, and focus on this critical area for Stripe and the world, and we are looking for talented engineers to join us who are interested in balancing a pragmatic approach to making forward progress with a unrelenting eye towards solving problems for the long term.

What you’ll do

We are looking for an engineering leader to build the team and drive the technical vision and design for the current and future state of Stripe’s financial crime controls.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of talented engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to design and deliver end-to-end solutions for FC problems
• Drive the roadmap and goals of your team partnering with cross-functional teams and other engineering teams
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with the recruiting team
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them grow and advance in their careers
• Manage processes to enable your team to do their best work and interface effectively with the rest of Stripe
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management 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.

Minimum requirements

• You have 10+ years of professional experience, and at least 3 years of engineering management experience, with a track record of leading high performing engineering teams
• You have been responsible for delivering great products that work end-to-end and have managed both frontend and backend engineers
• You enjoy working closely with customers
• You work very well cross-functionally and are comfortable making hard decisions and trade-offs 
• You have a strong technical sense and think rigorously about architecture and product decisions
• You thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• You have successfully recruited great people to your team
• You enjoy developing and mentoring engineers and engineering leaders