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

Verification & Identity Platform (VIP) is a core platform team which powers user onboarding & verification (KYC & KYB) worldwide & ensures continued compliance throughout the merchant life-cycle at Stripe. Our team safeguards user identities across our array of digital services, designing and executing a secure, effortless, and user-centered identity collection & verification environment. Our efforts cover a broad spectrum of identity confirming scenarios, including identity proofing, risk-based, and adaptive verification technology. We provide an in-house smart orchestration eco system which allows us to integrate with multiple 3P data verification services, financial institutions and regulatory bodies to build accuracy, reliability and speed to verify accounts & businesses.

What you’ll do Responsibilities Work with a team of talented engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver services that will form the basis of our onboarding systems, including data layer and business logic. Partner closely with Stripe product teams to support their specific needs while maintaining a high quality and consistent product across each offering Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability. Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of Stripe. Recruit, coach and develop engineers. 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’ve managed teams that have built and maintained highly compliant, secure and scalable backend systems that are the backbone for the highest impacting user experiences. Or if not, you’ve managed a team that has delivered a great product with strong foundations. You enjoy working closely with customers, both internally and externally You work very well cross-functionally, and are able to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs.  You thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You encourage a healthy work environment that’s both supportive and challenging. You’re technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions. You have more than 4 years of engineering management experience & overall 10+ years of experience; Preferred qualifications   Finance / Banking experience is a plus but not a requirement