Engineering Manager, Agentic Commerce

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · United States · 8510 Agentic Commerce

Stripe is building new API and integration experiences for agentic commerce, enabling AI agents to build agent-powered online commerce experiences. This role focuses on shaping and delivering products that redefine commerce for AI agents, requiring full-stack solutions, collaboration with product and design, and deep user understanding.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build full stack solutions across Stripe's ecosystem, including back end services, dashboard interfaces, money movement systems, and integrations with other Stripe primitives
  2. Partner deeply with product management and design to ship high impact features that increase user autonomy and reduce friction.
  3. Strong analytical skills: comfort diving into data to test hypotheses and make informed trade-offs. Comfortable setting success metrics for the team to ensure that our solutions are enterprise grade out of the box and can meet Stripe’s reliability SLOs quickly.
  4. Collaborate cross-functionally across Stripe’s broader platform and product teams to integrate agentic commerce capabilities seamlessly.
  5. Engage directly with users (particularly large enterprises) to understand their business needs and translate requirements into novel product shapes.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of engineering experience with a computer science background with hands on development expertise
  • Proven experience coaching and developing senior and staff level individual contributors
  • Demonstrated experience of leading initiatives that touch large engineering organizations, spanning multiple teams to influence tech roadmap planning and execution
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, structuring ambiguous concepts clearly and from first principles
  • Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
  • Deep empathy for users balancing autonomy and guidance in digital commerce experiences.

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of engineering management experience
  • Experience building APIs or new integration experiences for users, several of them being enterprise grade
  • You’ve been on the found team of a business / startup, taking a product from 0-1
  • Experience in eCommerce
  • AI-native and very comfortable autonomously solving problems with agentic AI tools

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native and very comfortable autonomously solving problems with agentic AI tools

Other signals

  • Agentic Commerce
  • AI agents
  • Instant Checkout
  • OpenAI collaboration