Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence

Stripe is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Payment Intelligence portfolio. The role sets technical strategy and engineering standards across payment intelligence products, partnering with merchants and cross-functional teams to build high-quality software across infrastructure, APIs, frontend, and ML-adjacent systems.

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

Preferred

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

Payments systems

Fraud detection

Production machine learning

Model serving

Observability

Model evaluation

0-to-1 product development

Java

Ruby

Python

TypeScript

Kafka

Flyte

Airflow

Mongo

Navigating ambiguity

Confident decision-making

Adaptability

Technical judgment

Company

Financial services platform for business payments and billing

South San Francisco, California, USA

https://stripe.com/

Founded in 2010

5001-10000 employees

Qualifications

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

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

Required skills

API Design, Airflow, Distributed Systems, Fraud Detection, Java, Kafka, Machine Learning Systems in Production, MongoDB, Payment Systems, Python, Ruby, TypeScript

Preferred skills

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Experience

10+ years