The opportunity
Link helps Stripe's merchants deliver frictionless and secure checkout experiences by auto-filling customers' payment information, letting customers check out in seconds and pay in one click across the Link merchant network.
What you'll do
Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for large, ambiguous: Link initiatives that create new money-movement primitives.
Own projects end to end: clarify the problem, define an incremental technical plan, align stakeholders, drive delivery, launch safely, and use results to guide further investment.
Build robust, scalable backend services and high-quality consumer-facing: experiences across Java, Ruby, and TypeScript.
Lead a project team of engineers through execution, creating clarity on: priorities, decisions, risks, and delivery milestones.
Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk, Infrastructure, and other: Stripe teams to build capabilities that are safe, reliable, and useful.
Navigate dependencies across Stripe’s payments and money-movement platforms,: making thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, user experience, operational reliability, and durable technical foundations.
What they're looking for
- + years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience, with a: track record of owning large, ambiguous systems end-to-end.
- Demonstrated technical experience leading the design and delivery of large,: complex software projects from early definition through production launch.
- Strong full-stack engineering skills, including experience building reliable: backend services and polished user-facing product experiences.
- Experience leading and unblocking a group of engineers on a substantial: project as a senior individual contributor.
- Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments: framing problems, making durable technical decisions, and creating an actionable path forward.
- Excellent cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration skills,: with the ability to align teams with different systems, priorities, and constraints.
- Strong engineering judgment around system reliability, operational excellence, security, and maintainability.
- A product-minded approach to engineering, with a focus on delivering: meaningful outcomes for users and the business.
