Stripe

Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence

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2 hours ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy for multiple Payment Intelligence product 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 Stripe merchants to co-build payment intelligence products.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and ML teams.
  • 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.
  • A proven record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
  • Strong cross-team, cross-organization, and cross-functional communication 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 zero-to-one products and production systems.
  • Preferred: experience with a range of software languages and frameworks, including the listed Stripe stack.
  • Preferred: ability to make confident technical decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

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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