Technology & IT

Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence at Stripe

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  • Company: Stripe
  • Location: New York, Toronto
  • Job type: Full-time

About the role

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform used by millions of companies to accept payments and grow revenue. The Payment Intelligence team builds AI-first solutions to address major customer challenges, including fraud detection, payment optimization, and merchant analytics. This role involves working on cutting-edge technologies with significant scale while collaborating directly with merchants to build effective products.

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy for multiple experiences across the Payment Intelligence portfolio, prioritizing quality and performance.
  • Champion a quality-first engineering culture by establishing standards, tooling, and processes for shipping high-quality code at scale.
  • Partner with some of Stripe’s largest merchants to co-build the future of payment-centric intelligence.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and ML colleagues to deliver high-quality software.
  • Work across the stack, contributing to infrastructure, foundational systems, front-end, API, and ML-adjacent work.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
  • Experience leading engineering teams working on distributed systems, API design, and user-facing products.
  • A proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
  • Ability to drive projects at a high level while remaining hands-on and contributing directly to technical solutions.
  • Effective communication skills and a proven ability to work cross-team, cross-org, and cross-functionally.
  • Preferred qualifications: Experience with payments systems or fraud detection; familiarity with ML systems in production (model serving, training pipelines, observability, evaluation); prior experience with 0-1 product builds; experience with a range of languages and frameworks (Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Flyte, Airflow, Mongo); and experience navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving organization.

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