Staff Backend Engineer, Risk & Decision Systems Lead

Stripe, Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. in Dublin is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer and Technical Lead for Supportability Decisions to define and build a new capability from the ground up.

You will own high-throughput backend services and stateful decision engines at the intersection of AI/ML, real-time risk decisioning, and distributed data processing. You will mentor engineers, set architectural patterns, and align with distributed partner teams globally to accelerate Stripe’s expansion while safeguarding the

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional backend software engineering experience building and maintaining complex distributed systems in production.
• Proven track record as a technical lead or staff engineer driving multi-quarter technical initiatives from ambiguous requirements to production delivery.
• Deep experience designing durable, scalable APIs, data models, and backend architectures capable of processing mission-critical data with high reliability.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with experience mentoring engineers, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and driving technical consensus across distributed teams.
• Fluency in a modern backend language (such as Ruby, Java, Go, Python, or C++).

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical vision, system architecture and delivery of the canonical Supportability Decision Layer, establishing stateful, explainable decision APIs consumed across automated systems and human operations.
• Architect decision aggregation and AI/ML orchestration pipelines, synthesizing upstream machine learning outputs, website intelligence, backsite detection, and agentic AI evaluations into unified, low-latency determinations.
• Design high-throughput, low-latency distributed backend services that balance platform safety, regulatory compliance, and minimal friction for legitimate merchants.
• Navigate ambiguous, zero-to-one problem spaces to define clean domain models, contracts and interfaces across transaction laundering detection, web-presence screening and Local Payment Method (LPM) support.
• Build resilient, AI-assisted decision engines designed to withstand circumvention, ensuring systems maintain integrity against sophisticated bad actors who actively evolve their tactics.
• Serve as the technical lead and mentor for the Dublin engineering team, setting architectural patterns, conducting design reviews, and raising the technical bar as the team expands.
• Partner closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Risk Operations, and Data Science to translate strategic risk policy into scalable technical roadmaps.
• Drive technical alignment and system integrations across global partner teams, leveraging strong written design artifacts and asynchronous collaboration to ensure cohesive platform architecture.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

Technical leadership

API design

Communication

Tools

Ruby

Java

Go

Python

C++

Job description

Stripe, Inc. in Dublin is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer and Technical Lead for Supportability Decisions to define and build a new capability from the ground up.

You will own high-throughput backend services and stateful decision engines at the intersection of AI/ML, real-time risk decisioning, and distributed data processing. You will mentor engineers, set architectural patterns, and align with distributed partner teams globally to accelerate Stripe’s expansion while safeguarding the