Experience with distributed systems and API design
Proven track record of delivering solutions that drive business growth
Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration
Responsibilities
Define technical strategy for the Payment Intelligence portfolio
Champion a quality-first engineering culture with standards and tooling
Collaborate with major merchants to innovate payment-centric solutions
Work cross-functionally with product, design, and ML teams
Contribute across the stack, including infrastructure, frontend, and API work
Benefits
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge payment technologies
Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
Chance to influence the future of payment intelligence
Access to a diverse tech stack and innovative projects
Support for professional growth and development
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.
