Staff Software Engineer: Global Money Movement Lead

Monograph; Toronto; On-site; CAD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonuses

Health benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of money-movement capabilities for the Link Balance platform from Toronto. This hands-on role spans architecture, development, and cross-team collaboration to create reliable, scalable experiences for merchants and consumers.

You will own large projects end-to-end, partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk, and Infra, and raise the engineering bar as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 8+ 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, security, and maintainability.
• A product-minded approach to engineering, with a focus on delivering meaningful outcomes for users and the business.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, mentoring, and constructive feedback across the team.
• Help shape the team's longer-term roadmap by identifying opportunities, technical risks, and investments needed to scale Link's financial capabilities globally.

Skills

Backend development

Full-stack engineering

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Tools

Java

Ruby

TypeScript

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of money-movement capabilities for the Link Balance platform from Toronto. This hands-on role spans architecture, development, and cross-team collaboration to create reliable, scalable experiences for merchants and consumers.

You will own large projects end-to-end, partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk, and Infra, and raise the engineering bar as the team grows.