Stripe

Staff Software Engineer, Payment Systems

Stripe • $160K — $200K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role
  • Leadership experience in Distributed systems and API design
  • Track record of delivering solutions that support business growth
  • Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy for Payment Intelligence experiences focusing on quality and performance
  • Establish a quality-first engineering culture with robust standards and processes
  • Collaborate with major merchants to develop advanced payment-centric intelligence
  • Work closely with product, design, and ML teams to deliver high-quality software
  • Contribute across the stack, including infrastructure, frontend, and API work.

Benefits

  • Impactful role in shaping payment intelligence technology
  • Opportunity to partner with large, notable merchants
  • Creative freedom in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Focus on quality and performance in engineering
  • Access to a diverse technology stack and tools
Full Job Description
What you'll do

As a Staff Engineer on Payment Intelligence, you'll work across our product portfolio to ensure we're building in a consistent, efficient, and effective manner. Experience with large, distributed systems on the critical path will help candidates succeed, as will comfort working across the stack and interacting with ML teams and models.
Responsibilities
  • Define technical strategy for multiple experiences across the Payment Intelligence portfolio, with a focus on quality and performance
  • Champion a quality-first engineering culture - establish standards, tooling, and processes that make it easy to ship high-quality code at scale
  • Partner with some of Stripe's largest merchants to co-build the future of payment-centric intelligence
  • Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and ML colleagues to ship the very best software possible
  • Work across the stack - contributing to infrastructure and foundational systems, but also FE, API, and ML-adjacent work.
Minimum requirements
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of experience in a strategic technical leadership role
  • Experience leading engineering team(s) working on Distributed systems, API design, and user facing products
  • Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth
  • Ability to drive projects at a high-level while also being hands on and contributing directly to technical solutions as necessary
  • Effective communication skills and a proven ability to work cross-team, cross-org, and cross-functionally.
Preferred qualifications
  • Experience with payments systems and/or fraud detection
  • Familiarity with ML systems in production: model serving, training pipelines, observability, and evaluation
  • Prior experience with 0-1 product builds: you've started with a blank page and ended with a production system, and you have clear opinions about what makes that process go well or poorly
  • Experience across a range of software languages and frameworks; our stack includes Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Flyte, Airflow, and Mongo.
  • Experience navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving organization - you can make confident technical decisions with incomplete information and update gracefully when new constraints emerge

About Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Stripe powers businesses all over the world, from the new startup that just launched yesterday to the Fortune 500 companies that we all know and love. Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and more.
Learn more about Stripe
Size
4,000 employees
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Founded
2010
* Ladders Estimates

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