stripe

Engineering Manager, Terminal

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At a Glance

Location
Toronto, Canada
Experience
5+ years
Posted
2026-05-15T13:27:45-04:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Embedded Systems
  • Engineering

Requirements

A strong technical background with 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership across Mobile, API, and backend development teams; demonstrated broad technical leadership

Understands AI’s impact and has a strong product mindset to turn emerging capabilities into clear customer and business value

Understanding of how to build and manage scalable, resilient, and observable systems across the stack

The ability to put yourself in the shoes of Stripe’s merchants and users

Have led large technical projects with internal and external dependencies and impact across many teams

Industry experience building or managing teams who have built in-person checkout experiences and/or payment method integrations

Responsibilities

As an Engineering Manager on the Terminal Commerce Experience team, you will launch and scale Stripe Terminal's Unified Commerce experiences, drive new end-customer and merchant features, and build POS Integrations from the ground up to support large-scale enterprise.

Work with Stripe leaders across the company to create and drive toward the vision of Stripe’s Unified Commerce offering, bringing in-person and online payments together.

Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability

Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of Stripe

Recruit excellent engineers in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team and develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers

Understand core Stripe APIs, influencing design to interplay with card present payments, and building a platform for Unified Commerce with your team

Team

As a platform company powering businesses all over the world, Stripe processes payments, runs marketplaces, detects fraud, helps entrepreneurs start internet businesses from anywhere in the world, builds world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. Stripe’s engineering teams work on the business logic for all of that. As a software engineering manager at Stripe, you'll lead teams that build and expand APIs, services, and experiences. You’ll also work with partners to launch new markets and vertical capabilities.

Stripe Terminal

helps our users extend their online presence to the physical world. The Terminal team’s mission is to make it as easy for businesses to accept in-person payments as the Stripe API has done for online payments – building for Unified Commerce. With Terminal, businesses can unify their in-person and online experiences, unlocking payments use cases that are right for their business model – whether it’s creating a modern retail experience, extending their website to a pop-up store, or enabling a mobile point-of-sale at their next event.

Within Terminal, the Commerce team focuses on the following to help make Unified Commerce a reality for business across the globe:

Enterprise features – on-reader forms, tipping, gift cards

Payment features - DCC, surcharge, multi-capture

About the Company

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.