Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
The Advanced Attacks team aims to protect our users, financial partners and Stripe from transaction level fraud attacks such as card testing. To achieve this we develop fast and scalable infrastructure, and use ML models to detect and take action on fraud transactions while minimizing false positives to avoid user loss. Our team works cross-functionally with ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Strategists, Operations, product leaders and different payments teams to continuously prevent fraud attacks across different Stripe payment services.
What you’ll do
As a Staff Backend Engineer on Advanced Attacks in our Payments Intelligence organization, you will play a key role in designing the systems and services that are configurable and scalable to handle the most complex transaction fraud attacks across the world. You’ll collaborate with engineers across Stripe to design, build, and launch platforms, services, and controls that protect our users from attacks, like card testing and cashing.
Responsibilities
- Create long term technical vision for the org, and identify paths to deliver value in phases
- Architect and design systems with cross team and cross org impact
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems
- Make significant hands-on contributions to deliver critical projects and bring value to customers
- Mentor engineers in their technical careers to help them grow
- Lead by example to uphold high engineering standards, and elevate quality and engineering efficiency across Stripe
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations
Who you are
We’re looking for people with a strong background and passion in building successful backend systems, services and APIs that deliver impactful product values to our customers. You are comfortable in dealing with changes. You love to take initiatives, and bias towards action.
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- At least 10 years of professional software development experience
- Strong expertise in building distributed systems and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts, and be a mentor to the broader team.
- Proven experience leading technically complex projects that involve multiple engineering teams
- Demonstrated experience in upleveling engineering best practices and creating technical efficiencies across teams
- Enjoyment in working with a diverse group of people with different expertise
- Empathy with users and a strong customer focus
- Enjoyment in working with a diverse group of people with different expertise
Preferred qualifications
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- Experience in payments, fraud, and or security
- Experience with or interest in ML, which powers many of the products we own
- Strong data analysis skills using SQL
- Proficient in Java, Scala, and Ruby; language can be learned and we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
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