Engineering Manager, Tax Platform
Stripe
Operations
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Mar 24, 2025
About the team
Stripe Tax Platform is at the core of Stripe Tax and our growth journey. Our value proposition in Tax is taking a large, disjoint set of regional laws and systems and making them approachable for our users. As part of this, the Platform team delivers Tax compute, enabling performant at-scale calculation of sales tax. The Platform team drives growth through supporting additional tax jurisdictions (12,000 in the US alone, and over 90 countries), new tax types (such as regional food delivery tax), and new categories of products and services. In addition, the team builds tools for managing the extensive set of tax rules, systems to more precisely determine user location (and thus tax jurisdiction), and is building a true platform that can leverage third party tax providers. Lastly, and most importantly, the team is highly engaged with external users and lock-step in their growth plans, and across many teams within Stripe on tax works for our users.
What you’ll do
Leading a critical team in a product growing 100% year-over-year is a unique opportunity. As the Engineering Manager for this team, you’ll continue the operational excellence and strong user focus that has allowed us to grow with our users and earn their trust, while setting a technical direction and strategy for the area that will carry us through our future years of growth. Your hands-on involvement in the work and with the team will elevate what we can achieve across both business and technology outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of talented engineers and product managers to drive growth, solve user problems, and deliver operational excellence
- Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines and across the company to to achieve the best outcomes for our users
- Build the plans, rhythm, and support for your team to deliver its best work
- Contribute to the broader Tax Engineering organization through technical leadership, process and tooling improvements
- Lead, coach, retain, and recruit engineers on the team
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team
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
- At least 5 years of experience managing teams that shipped high-quality products.
- Successfully built and led great teams leading high impact areas.
- Work effectively cross-functionally and are able to think rigorously, communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and trade-offs.
- Thrive with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an ambiguous environment.
- Technical acumen and hands on experience at scale to drive clarity with staff engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions.
- Encourage a healthy and inclusive work environment that’s both challenging and supportive.
Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.
The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is C$213,600 - C$320,400. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.
