Who we areAbout 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: Atlas
With Atlas, founders can start a company in a few clicks, from anywhere in the world. We believe that startups are one of the most effective ways to solve the world’s problems, and we want to give founders a running start. Atlas helps founders incorporate and set up their company, get discounts for the internet’s best tools, and automate operations while feeling ambitious, smart, and assured. Our goal is to create more startups that get to product-market fit, fast.
Atlas is a small but mighty team within Stripe that moves fast to make things better for founders. In the past year, we’ve automated 83(b) election filing, helped founders purchase their shares in a single click - no cash needed, and enabled founders to open a bank account and use Stripe payments even faster. We currently help 1 in 6 Delaware C Corps incorporate their companies.
What you’ll do
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of founder-obsessed product engineers
- Drive the Atlas roadmap, working with Product and Strategy to prioritize, scope, and deliver product that solve problems for Atlas users
- Make Atlas a great place for engineers to work - building for and maintaining Atlas should be fun and sustainable
- Ensure Atlas ships both quickly and reliably, prioritizing stability and observability
- Encourage simple and straightforward solutions to problems, and help the team scope work that they can ship incrementally
- Be the voice of our user, the startup founder, encouraging engineers to talk directly to users and reframe problems from the perspective of our users
- Build a culture of metrics and measurement. We’ve defined metrics that give us confidence we are solving problems for users, and we prioritize work that supports this.
Minimum requirements
- Have a track record of leading teams that build excellent products
- 4+ years of engineering management and 10+ years of engineering experience
- Have managed full stack engineering teams
- Care deeply about the user experience and take pride in building products to solve problems and delight users
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for systems that will last and scale
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholder and partners: we work closely with designers, product managers, lawyers, and data scientists
- Have a high quality bar, attention to detail, and you help your team deliver polished products
Preferred qualifications
- Startup experience
- Prior experience with Ruby, Javascript/Typescript, React, and SQL
Top Skills
What We Do
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook—use the company’s software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Over the long term, Stripe aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
