Staff Software Engineer, Payment SystemsActive

The opportunity

Payment Intelligence is comprised of multiple product teams building AI-first solutions to some of our customers’ biggest challenges, including fraud/abuse ( Radar ), payment optimizations ( AuthBoost ), Disputes, Authentication, and merchant analytics. We’re a mix of machine…

What you'll do

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • + 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