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Engineering Manager, Infrastructure (Privy)

Stripe · NYC-Privy · On-site

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

As an Engineering Manager at Privy, you will lead, grow, and shape high-performing engineering teams that make a massive impact on our product and industry. Your North Star is to enable and drive towards the success of Privy’s business overall. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Deep ownership and a high-level perspective on driving overall business impact
  • Performance-oriented mindset, with a high bar for quality and excellence
  • Technical excellence to be able to independently evaluate quality and technical feedback
  • High emotional maturity, insightfulness, and care
  • Strong past experience as a manager and leader – excellent management takes reps
More about this role

Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails.

Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link. We get to solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers like Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo — powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives.

  • High urgency—Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly.
  • Product taste—Our customers are developers, and to build effective products for them requires technical knowledge —you will often be "the PM".
  • Security mindset—A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start.

In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low-latency APIs, and...

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