Staff Engineer, Payins

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

Stripe’s payments products have helped to accelerate many of the world’s most innovative companies, and the Payins team owns one of Stripe’s most critical workflows, a platform that processes hundreds of billions of dollars in payments annually. The Payins organization builds products and platforms to help users accept payments from customers, including the APIs for configuring and processing payments, and Cards, our highest volume and most complex method for accepting payments.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a seasoned technical leader that will help expand the capabilities of Stripe’s global payments network. You’ll work with engineering leadership, senior engineers, and cross-functional partners to design and implement novel payment capabilities and tooling, deliver best-in-class reliability/performance, and power new product experiences. You will be responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale technical efforts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams
• Advise Stripe leadership on key technology and product roadmap considerations
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses.
• As a leader within Engineering, assist with team growth and development while maintaining a high bar for excellence and technical curiosity.
  

Who you are

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

• 15+ years of engineering experience OR equivalent combined work experience reflecting domain expertise as relevant to this position
• You have served as the technical lead and defined the roadmap for company-impacting projects spanning multiple teams and functions.
• Experience influencing company strategy at the intersection of business needs and technology (you measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code)
• Demonstrated ability to balance execution and velocity with security, reliability, and efficiency
• Experience mentoring, and investing in the development engineers and peers
• You internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind

Preferred qualifications

• Prior knowledge in financial technology space, particularly in payment processing