Stripe

Staff Software Engineer, Payments and Applied Machine Learning

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7 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy for multiple Payment Intelligence experiences with emphasis on quality and performance.
  • Establish engineering standards, tooling, and processes that support high-quality software delivery at scale.
  • Partner with major merchants to co-build payment-centric intelligence products.
  • Collaborate with product, design, ML, and cross-functional engineering teams to ship software.
  • Contribute hands-on across infrastructure, foundational systems, frontend, APIs, and ML-adjacent work.
  • Lead projects at a high level while contributing directly to technical solutions when needed.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
  • Experience leading engineering teams working on distributed systems, API design, and user-facing products.
  • Proven ability to deliver pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
  • Strong cross-team, cross-organization, and cross-functional communication skills.
  • Preferred: experience with payment systems and/or fraud detection.
  • Preferred: familiarity with production ML systems, including model serving, training pipelines, observability, and evaluation.
  • Preferred: experience building products from 0 to 1 and taking them into production.
  • Preferred: experience with a range of software languages and frameworks, including the stated stack.
  • Preferred: ability to make technical decisions amid ambiguity and adapt as constraints change.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache KafkaJavaMongoDBPythonRubyTypeScript

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About Stripe

10,000+ employees

Stripe builds financial infrastructure for internet businesses, offering APIs and tools for online and in‑person payments, subscriptions, marketplaces/payouts, fraud prevention, identity, tax, issuing, and treasury. It monetizes through per‑transaction fees and SaaS pricing for advanced products. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Stripe is privately held and serves companies from startups to large enterprises worldwide.

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