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Engineering Manager, Mobile Development Productivity

Stripe · Remote · 8126 Developer Infrastructure

Posted Oct 5, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a developer productivity or mobile platform team you managed. What did you measure to know you were helping?

What they are checking: Whether they define success by real developer outcomes like build time and release effort, not activity.

Tell me about a time you got engineers to adopt a new tool or workflow they did not ask for.

What they are checking: Whether they drive adoption by listening and showing value rather than mandating it.

Tell me about a time you had to coach an engineer who was struggling.

What they are checking: Whether they give direct, caring feedback and support people's growth as a manager.

What would you do

Your customers are teams on Dashboard Mobile, Link, SDKs and Terminal with different needs. How do you prioritize?

What they are checking: Whether they can weigh competing internal customers with clear criteria instead of favoring the loudest team.

How do you balance keeping the platform running with longer-term investment?

What they are checking: Whether they protect roadmap work from being eaten by constant support requests.

About the work

Mobile CI is slow and flaky across iOS and Android. Where do you start?

What they are checking: Whether they diagnose with data on flakiness and build times before choosing fixes.

How would you design a release process for mobile SDKs and Terminal device software that is both fast and safe?

What they are checking: Whether they understand staged rollouts and the higher cost of bad releases on SDKs and devices.

The team wants mobile engineers to use AI agents to write code, run tests and validate changes. What has to be true for that to work?

What they are checking: Whether they see the need for reliable simulators, fast feedback and guardrails before agents can help.

What tradeoffs come with React Native or Kotlin Multiplatform from a build and test point of view?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the tooling complexity that cross-platform stacks add for a platform team.

How do you keep simulators and emulators reliable enough for automated testing at scale?

What they are checking: Whether they have dealt with the real infrastructure pain behind mobile test automation.

How do you think about security in the mobile build and release pipeline for a payments company?

What they are checking: Whether they treat signing keys, dependencies and pipeline access as serious risks at Stripe's scale.

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The full job description

As published by Stripe.

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

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