Engineering Manager II

Summary

Join Stitch Fix's Checkout, Payments & Client Trust team as a leader, shaping the career development of your team and driving the architecture of our platform. You will inspire and grow your team, collaborate with stakeholders, and work closely with loss prevention and security teams. This role requires extensive experience in managing high-performing teams, building real-time solutions, and implementing secure payment integrations. You'll be responsible for hiring and developing a diverse team, facilitating technical discussions, and fostering continuous improvement. Stitch Fix offers a competitive salary, benefits, and equity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience cultivating and managing diverse, inclusive, and high-performing teams
• 7+ years of experience building and rapidly scaling real-time solutions
• Experience implementing resilient, secure, scalable and high-performance payments integrations with major payments platforms
• Experience designing and implementing fraud detection and prevention systems to maintain client trust
• Proven ability to provide technical direction, drive architectural decisions, and guide the team's approach to designing and building solutions
• Familiarity with payment industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices and understand payment data analytics and reporting to drive business insights and optimizations
• Familiarity with modern tech stacks including technologies like Node, React, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, Redis, and Kafka

Responsibilities

• Shape and support the career development for the members of your team
• Inspire and grow your team through mentorship, empowerment, timely feedback, and challenging them to deliver their best work
• Be supported as you make changes to ensure your teams are inclusive and effective
• Collaborate closely with the team and stakeholders to define the architecture of our Checkout and Payments Platform, leveraging your communication, collaboration, and planning skills to create rapid value for Stitch Fix
• Work in close partnership with loss prevention and security teams to architect security features to reduce fraud on our platform
• Work with business partners to help set priorities and plan the roadmap for your team
• Find, hire, and develop people that compliment each other as a diverse, inclusive team
• Facilitate technical design discussions, remove blockers and align stakeholders
• Inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement by serving as a coach, mentor, and technical advisor

Preferred Qualifications

• Treasure helping your team members grow and learn
• Believe in clear and honest communication
• Take a people-focused approach to leading and managing your team
• Believe that strong teams are built on trust and autonomy
• Clearly set and share your priorities with your team and partners
• Understand and focus on what is right for the customer
• Are passionate about building high-quality solutions, and know when to be pragmatic
• Are flexible, dedicated to your craft and curious
• Have experience helping teams improve and hone their development processes

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits
• Equity
• New hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units (depending on employee and company performance)
• Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits