Engineering Manager, Payments

Role Description

At Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud and artificial intelligence based solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on their files seamlessly. Engineering Managers are pivotal in shaping our mission of building a more enlightened way of working where everyone can unleash their creative potential without constraints.

As an Engineering Manager focused on the Payments domain within the Commerce organization, you’ll lead a new team responsible for one of Dropbox’s most critical business areas—ensuring we reliably capture revenue and optimize payment processing at scale. You will play a crucial role in building and leading a cross-functional team from the ground up, focused on driving improvements in payment success rates, reducing processing costs, and enabling future monetization strategies. You’ll be responsible for end-to-end ownership : from technical execution and operational excellence to team building and cross-functional alignment.

This is a high-visibility role with direct exposure to senior leaders across Product, Engineering, and Finance. You’ll help shape the long-term architecture and reliability of our payments platform while building a team culture rooted in ownership, resilience, and trust. You’ll get the opportunity to lead a new team in a fully virtual, globally distributed company—starting with a core presence in Poland—while collaborating closely with the current team based in North America who own this domain.

Our Engineering Career Framework is and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a new Payments engineering team with full ownership of a mission-critical business domain
• Guide the technical execution and architectural direction of our Payments systems, ensuring long-term scalability, quality, and resilience
• Drive results by identifying high-leverage opportunities that reduce payment failure rates and operational costs
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Management, Data Science, Finance, and adjacent engineering teams to align technical outcomes with business goals
• Mentor and grow engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development
• Foster a strong team culture rooted in collaboration, inclusion, and accountability
• Champion operational excellence and ensure the team meets high standards for quality, reliability, and performance

Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

Compensation

Dropbox applies increased tax deductible costs to remuneration earned by certain qualifying employees (to the extent an employee will be involved in the creation of the software as an “author”) for the transfer of copyrights, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Income Tax Act.

Poland Pay Range314 500 zł—425 500 zł PLN

The range listed above is the expected annual salary / OTE (On-Target Earnings) for this role, subject to change.

Please note, OTE are for sales roles only.

Salary / OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Dropbox is a Virtual First company and is open to hiring candidates in all authorized locations.

Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Description

The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people. Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact. Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development. We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work. If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team. Areas of work include Machine Learning Engineers, Infrastructure Engineer, Product SWE Frontend and Backend, Mobile Software Engineers (iOS and Android), Engineering Manager, Data Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer, Technical Program Managers, Network Engineer, Datacenter Engineer, Technical Supply Chain Manager and more.

Benefits

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to :

Additional benefits details are available upon request.

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.