Staff Engineer: Build Premium Merchant Experiences

Monograph; Dublin; On-site; EUR 132,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance bonus

Health benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe’s Premium Merchant Experiences team in Dublin seeks a Staff Engineer to set technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and drive high‑quality, scalable product delivery. You will influence architecture, collaborate with product leadership, and own critical backend initiatives.

This is a founding‑level technical leadership role requiring hands‑on coding, cross‑functional collaboration, and a strong focus on customer‑centric product experiences for Stripe merchants.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional backend or full‑stack development experience, including actively writing and reviewing code.
• Experience successfully setting and executing on long‑term technical strategy for a large product area.
• Ability to prioritize competing requirements and stakeholders to iteratively ship new product features.
• Proven track record of technical leadership, including meaningfully contributing to the growth of other engineers.
• Superb communication skills working with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• User empathy and a customer‑centric approach to problem solving and product development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production systems, with an emphasis on extensibility, reliability, and usability.
• Write and review code regularly, setting the pace and elevating standards for the team.
• Build high-quality end-to-end product experiences, demonstrating deep care for users’ needs and serving as a steward of crafting great experiences.
• Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders — navigating various types of organizational complexity with the support of your own leadership team.
• Partner with Engineering Management, Product Manager and key leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision.
• Unblock the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Teach and mentor other engineers to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe.

Skills

Backend development

Full-stack development

React

Ruby

Technical leadership

Communication skills

User empathy

Product development

Job description

Stripe’s Premium Merchant Experiences team in Dublin seeks a Staff Engineer to set technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and drive high‑quality, scalable product delivery. You will influence architecture, collaborate with product leadership, and own critical backend initiatives.

This is a founding‑level technical leadership role requiring hands‑on coding, cross‑functional collaboration, and a strong focus on customer‑centric product experiences for Stripe merchants.