Stripe

Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence

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

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy for multiple Payment Intelligence experiences with a focus 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 intelligence products.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and machine learning teams to ship software.
  • Contribute hands-on across infrastructure, foundational systems, frontend, APIs, and ML-adjacent work.
  • Drive high-level projects 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.
  • Track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
  • Ability to make technical contributions while driving projects at a high level.
  • Effective communication and cross-team, cross-organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Preferred: experience with payment systems or fraud detection.
  • Preferred: familiarity with production ML systems, including model serving, training pipelines, observability, and evaluation.
  • Preferred: experience building products from the initial concept through production.
  • Preferred: experience with a range of software languages and frameworks, including the listed stack.
  • Preferred: ability to navigate ambiguity and make technical decisions with incomplete information.

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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