Staff Engineer, Payment Intelligence

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

Payments Intelligence believes that online payments should be simple and scalable for merchants.

Our vision is to offer smart authentication solutions that empower our merchants to achieve the most optimum payment performance by balancing regulatory requirements against conversion, costs, and fraud considerations.

We envision a future where payments can be authenticated securely, contextually, and with least amount of friction, unleashing limitless opportunities for merchants.

We own products like Adaptive Acceptance, Authorization Boost and Radar, building fast and scalable services and creating intuitive user experiences.

We serve real-time predictions as part of Stripe's payment infrastructure and architect controls that leverage ML to optimally manage users' business.

What you'll do

You will join as a Technical Lead for one of the most impactful areas at Stripe.

By collaborating with the team's technical leaders, you will ensure the software your org builds meets the needs of Stripe and its customers.

We are a highly effective team that consistently delivers high-impact results while genuinely caring for one another.

We expect you to bring your curiosity and critical thinking skills to this challenging domain.

At the same time, you'll have plenty of opportunities to be hands-on building key systems, and will be directly responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale technical efforts as well acting as a technical mentor and leader for Stripe engineers.

Responsibilities

Help build our next generation Subscription primitives that will power many higher order APIs.

Lead by example in designing, developing and delivering optimized, delightful product experiences.

Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision.

Establish best practices, frameworks, and repeatable processes that enable us to measure the impact of every feature that we ship.

Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps.

Work in a variety of languages and technologies, including Ruby, Java and Typescript.

Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture / design, vision / direction / requirements setting, and incident response processes) for team members.

Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe's services roadmap.

Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team.

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

10+ years of technical production experience

5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role

Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products).

Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth

Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding

Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility

Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication

Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset

Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to high level of psychological safety for all team members and partner

Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go).

Preferred qualifications

Have experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets.

Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).

Strong quantitative and analytical background.

Productively worked with distributed teams.

Office locations

Dublin HQ

Team

Payments

Job type

Full time

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users.

This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location.

For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office.

Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss.

This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €126,400 - €189,600.

This range may change if you are hired in another location.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions / sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and specific location.

Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant's location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process.

Benefits / additional compensation for this role may include : equity, company bonus or sales commissions / bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations

Dublin HQ

Team

Payments

Job type

Full time

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