Engineering Manager, Sandboxes

Stripe • Seattle, WA

18h

About The Position

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform used by businesses to accept payments, grow revenue, and pursue new business opportunities. Its mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

The Sandboxes team builds and operates safe, isolated, scalable testing capabilities. Customers use claimable sandboxes to add Stripe capabilities to prototypes before business registration and provision isolated test environments for agents to explore after onboarding. The team works across Stripe to make products testable and help businesses develop integrations with confidence.

The Engineering Manager will lead and grow the Sandboxes engineering team, set technical direction, and operate critical systems. The role calls for a culture of operational excellence and thoughtful product development, close engagement with users, and partnership with Product, Design, and Data Science to shape and deliver strategy. It combines building reusable testing capabilities across Stripe with attention to effective, easy-to-use developer tools.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5 or more engineers building and shipping products at scale.
• At least 8 years of full-time software development experience.
• Experience building reusable, extensible software that supports a range of user needs, with strong user empathy and a commitment to high-quality user experiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a track record of finding practical solutions to complex challenges.
• Experience turning ambiguous goals into clear priorities and delivering multiple high-impact workstreams.
• A track record of building a supportive environment with candid feedback and high expectations.
• Technical depth to guide architecture and product design discussions and help engineers make informed tradeoffs.
• Experience taking ownership of initiatives and moving work forward independently.

Nice To Haves

• Strong product and design judgment, including the ability to simplify complex user experiences.
• Experience making decisions and building strong working relationships across teams.
• Experience building and leading a distributed team across multiple locations and time zones.
• Experience building developer tools or platform capabilities.
• Experience building testing tools or capabilities that help users test within a product.
• Experience building AI agent systems or tools that support agent-driven development.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering planning and execution, partnering with Design to build clear, useful testing experiences.
• Shape the team’s strategy and roadmap, aligning partners across Product, Design, Infrastructure, Marketing, and Operations.
• Own delivery from problem definition through rollout and ongoing operation, improving system performance and user experience.
• Uphold high engineering standards across the team’s codebases and development practices.
• Partner with Recruiting to hire engineers and build a diverse, high-performing team.
• Coach and mentor engineers, provide candid feedback, and support career development tailored to their goals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed