About the team
Stripe Tax Platform is at the core of Stripe Tax and our growth journey. Our value proposition in Tax is taking a large, disjoint set of regional laws and systems and making them approachable for our users. As part of this, the Platform team delivers Tax compute, enabling performant at-scale calculation of sales tax. The Platform team drives growth through supporting additional tax jurisdictions (over 12,000 in the US alone, and over 90 countries), new tax types (such as regional delivery taxes, or amusement taxes), and new categories of products and services. In addition, the team builds tools for managing the extensive set of tax rules, systems to more precisely determine user location (and thus tax jurisdiction), and is building true platform level support for our users. Lastly, and most importantly, the team is highly engaged with external users and lock-step in their growth plans, and across many teams within Stripe on tax works for our users.
What you’ll do
Leading a critical team in a product growing 100% year-over-year is a unique opportunity. As the Engineering Manager for this team, you’ll continue the operational excellence and strong user focus that has allowed us to grow with our users and earn their trust, while setting a technical direction and strategy for the area that will carry us through our future years of growth. Your hands-on involvement in the work and with the team will elevate what we can achieve across both business and technology outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of talented engineers and product managers to drive growth, solve user problems, and deliver operational excellence
- Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines, timezones, and across the company to to achieve the best outcomes for our users
- Build the plans, rhythm, and support for your team to deliver its best work
- Contribute to the broader Tax Engineering organization through technical leadership, process and tooling improvements
- Lead, coach, retain, and recruit engineers on the team
- 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
- At least 5 years of experience managing teams that shipped high-quality products.
- Successfully built and led great teams leading high impact areas.
- Work effectively cross-functionally and are able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs.
- Thrive with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
- Technical acumen and hands on experience at scale to drive clarity with staff engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions.
- Experience designing, delivering, and operating business critical services at scale.
- Encourage a healthy and inclusive work environment that’s both challenging and supportive.
