Technical Program Manager, Stripe

Infrastructure

$173.4-260.2k

SQL
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area

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Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

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Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Be an early applicant

$173.4-260.2k

SQL
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Role

Who you are

  • 8+ years of software engineering, systems engineering and/or technical program management experience
  • Experience in core infrastructure such as database, cloud compute, networking, and services
  • Understand distributed systems
  • Understand Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Excellent analytical skills; you digest complex information, can distill it and make recommendations and proposals
  • You have a track record of providing program management during all phases of software development from kick-off to launch, demonstrating critical thinking, challenging the norms and thought leadership
  • You have very strong written and verbal communication skills, building strong relationships with stakeholders, teams and senior leaders around the organization
  • You can drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions and bring a wealth of experience, opinions, proposals and best practices
  • Experience operating autonomously and rapidly and leading large-scale efforts across multiple teams and functions, with stakeholders in different disciplines across time zones

Desirable

  • Knowledge in software architecture, systems design and service oriented architecture
  • Background in technical program management, in software infrastructure
  • Understanding of cloud infrastructure in compute, networking, databases, service frameworks is a bonus
  • SQL scripting is a big plus

What the job involves

  • The infrastructure teams provide efficient and optimized infrastructure for Stripe to build secure, reliable and differentiated products, while enabling Stripe developers to achieve their highest potential
  • The TPM team that supports the infrastructure org has deep technical expertise in software infrastructure
  • As a Technical Program Manager in the Infrastructure team, you will play a key role within engineering and drive programs that span across Stripe in the core infrastructure of Stripe’s payment systems
  • You will be responsible for the successful definition, cross-functional strategy, planning and execution of large-scale technical programs that help to solve complex problems and enable products and infrastructure at scale
  • The ideal candidate will deliver exceptional results through building and implementing solutions that scale while protecting our users and serving the business
  • Working with teams across the organization to understand pain points in their infrastructure usage to find common ideas and work to create solutions which span multiple domains
  • Define and produce high quality written proposals, communications and documentation
  • Execute on technical programs that require deep systems and engineering level knowledge
  • Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and other Technical Program Managers to define, scope and drive large programs to conclusion
  • Play a key part in shaping the technical design, predicting technical roadblocks by collaborating with engineers, and identifying trade-offs
  • Develop, implement, and iterate on program management techniques, frameworks, and KPIs to achieve goals with well defined success criteria
  • Elevate the execution muscle of engineering teams around you. Train them to be better at delivery where needed
  • Help influence peers / stakeholders and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity
  • Leverage data and acquired knowledge to drive strategic decisions at an engineering leadership level
  • Create widely circulated plans, driving consistency, clarity and building alignment across teams
  • Operationalize and execute critical cross functional programs spanning multiple engineering organizations for Core Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, Database, Services)

Our take

Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.

More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.

To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."

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-5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)

Mar 2023

$6.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Mar 2021

$600m

SERIES H

Total funding: $8.7bn

Company benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
  • Fertility benefits and parental leave

Company values

  • Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
  • An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
  • Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
  • Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Patrick Collison

(Content Strategist)

Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.

John Collison

(President)

Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.

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