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

The Ruby Foundations team supports Stripe's Ruby engineers by providing increasingly fast and feature-rich developer tooling. We deliver projects that improve CPU utilization, memory usage, and cost efficiency of Ruby in both CI and production environments. Our team is responsible for Sorbet (Stripe's open-source Ruby type system), the processes for testing and adopting new versions of Ruby, and performance improvements to Ruby and its toolchain.

Ruby is the primary programming language used to build the business logic behind Stripe's products. The Ruby Infrastructure Foundations team ensures that this essential technology is used productively by Stripe engineers and remains fast and efficient in production. We work with a codebase of tens of millions of lines (and growing), used by hundreds of engineers across the globe. Our work is crucial in enabling Stripe engineers working with Ruby to have the most productive time of their careers while building and maintaining the core business logic that Stripe and its customers need to thrive.

We're seeking a leader to help run this high-impact, high-leverage team.

What you’ll do

 

Responsibilities

• Work with the team and other Stripe leaders to conceive of and prioritize the projects that will deliver the most impact to Stripe. 
• Work with engineering teams across Stripe to ensure the capabilities they need to safely, and reliably, deploy to production are available.
• Empower the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical productivity, reliability, and simplicity
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
• Help engineers advance in their careers and develop new skills
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team
• Own the end-to-end experience of tools. This includes working with Stripe engineers to understand pain points and delivering improvements to their day-to-day workflows.

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

• 3+ years of people management experience
• Hands-on experience building language tools that are used daily by other developers
• A passion for supporting developer productivity
• Successfully recruited and built great teams
• The ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication

Preferred qualifications

• You are comfortable working with geographically distributed teams
• You’ve managed teams that designed and operated critical infrastructure, particularly with a broad remit across core capabilities, builds, and quality
• You are empathetic to customer needs but visionary enough to not just deliver a faster horse
• You are comfortable planning in quarters, and can set a vision for several years
• You are excited about collaborating with teammates across Stripe’s organization, to provide a wonderful user experience for key developer workflows