StripeEngineering Manager, Mobile Development Productivity
Stripe is hiring an Engineering Manager, Mobile Development Productivity for a remote role open to applicants in United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Stripe.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting lists this role as remote.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include iOS, Android and React Native.
- Level classifies it as a lead role.
- Level lists 720 other open roles at Stripe.
AI in this role
Engineering Manager leads mobile development productivity, enabling mobile engineers to use AI agents throughout the process.
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 Mobile Development Productivity team makes building, testing, and releasing Stripe’s mobile applications and device-integrated software fast, reliable, and secure. The team owns the mobile development platform end to end, including development environments, simulators and emulators, continuous integration, automated testing, builds, and releases. We support engineers working across iOS, Android, React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform, mobile SDKs, and device-integrated software.
Our customers include engineers working on Stripe Dashboard Mobile, Link, Stripe’s mobile SDKs, and Terminal. We enable mobile engineers to use AI agents throughout the development process, including writing code, running tests, and validating changes across mobile platforms. Our work reduces manual release effort, improves test coverage, and makes mobile development faster and more reliable.
What you’ll do
You will lead the Mobile Development Productivity engineering team and set the technical strategy for the platform Stripe engineers use to build mobile applications and device-integrated software. You will work with engineers and leaders across mobile product and infrastructure teams to identify shared development challenges, align priorities, and translate a long-term technical vision into focused plans for your team.
You will grow and support a team that builds development environments, continuous integration systems, test infrastructure, and secure build and release workflows. You will also guide the team’s work to make AI agents effective participants in mobile development by giving them realistic environments, tools, and feedback for validating changes across mobile platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead, support, and grow a team of engineers by hiring, coaching, mentoring, and creating opportunities for development
- Define the team’s technical strategy, goals, and roadmap, translating organizational priorities and internal user needs into clear execution plans
- Partner with mobile product teams, infrastructure teams, and technical leaders to identify shared development challenges and align stakeholders around reusable solutions
- Collaborate with staff engineers on architecture and strategic technical decisions across development environments, continuous integration, automated testing, and secure build and release systems
- Establish high standards for reliability, security, engineering craft, and operational rigor across the systems the team owns
- Improve the experience of mobile engineers and AI agents by using measures of developer productivity, build and test performance, and release health to guide investments
- Work effectively with geographically distributed colleagues to maintain alignment, visibility, and clear ownership across teams
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
- 8+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years of engineering management experience
- Experience leading teams that build platforms, frameworks, infrastructure, or tools used by other engineers
- Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy, guide architecture decisions, and translate ambiguous goals into a clear roadmap and execution plan
- Proven success hiring, coaching, and developing engineers while fostering an inclusive, challenging, and supportive work environment
- Ability to align and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, communicate clearly across varied audiences, and coordinate difficult decisions and tradeoffs
Preferred qualifications
- Experience managing a developer productivity, developer platform, mobile infrastructure, or internal tools team
- Experience building or operating development environments, continuous integration systems, automated testing frameworks, or build and release infrastructure
- Experience with iOS, Android, React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform, mobile SDKs, or device-integrated software
How we rate this
Engineering Manager, Mobile Development Productivity at Stripe rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Questions you could be asked
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a project where engineering management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where mobile development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ci/cd was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used iOS in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, Engineering Management, Mobile Development, CI/CD, and iOS. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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