Stripe

Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence

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

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy for multiple experiences across the Payment Intelligence portfolio, focusing on quality and performance.
  • Establish standards, tooling, and processes that support high-quality code delivery at scale.
  • Partner with major merchants to co-build payment-centric intelligence products.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and ML colleagues.
  • Contribute hands-on across infrastructure, foundational systems, frontend, APIs, and ML-adjacent work.

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.
  • Ability to drive projects at a high level while contributing directly to technical solutions when needed.
  • Effective communication and cross-team, cross-organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Preferred: experience with payments systems 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.
  • Preferred: experience across a range of software languages and frameworks, including Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Flyte, Airflow, and Mongo.
  • Preferred: ability to navigate ambiguity and make confident 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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