The opportunity
Money Movement teams are crucial in helping Stripe build platforms and product experiences that enables businesses all over the world to move money. We are currently looking for someone who can drive the technical vision for how Stripe moves money at a global scale.
What you'll do
Help define and lead the technical roadmap for Money Movement.
Ensure our infrastructure is safely extensible, scalable, reliable and meets: SLAs for both external and internal users.
Shape future proof interfaces that are easy to build against and meet the requirements of product teams.
Help drive sound technical decision making within Money Movement and lead: technical conversations with other teams across Payments Infrastructure and Stripe.
Run, design, and code review for key components and ships in Money Movement.
Pair with the engineer manager to mentor and develop senior engineering talent on the teams.
What they're looking for
- + years of industry software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact: at a staff or equivalent scope (leading initiatives across multiple teams or systems).
- Proven track record designing and shipping large-scale user-facing products: with distributed backend systems that are both highly available and financially correct.
- Experience leading cross-functional engineering projects end-to-end, from: requirements through architecture, delivery, and post-launch iteration.
- Strong API design instincts and the ability to build simple,: developer-friendly interfaces over inherently complex financial and regulatory requirements.
- Ability to influence technical direction and align multiple teams without: direct authority, with excellent written and verbal communication across engineers, product, and leadership.
- High ownership mindset, such as comfortable with ambiguity, able to define: the problem and the plan, not just execute a predefined spec.
- Clear, precise communication on complex technical topics for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience building or operating real-time transaction processing systems: with strict latency and correctness requirements (authorizations, payments, ledgering, settlement).
