Radar Backend Engineer: Real-Time Fraud APIs

Stripe, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Radar Software Engineer in Seattle to build products and infrastructure that help businesses detect and stop fraud.

You will work on backend services, enterprise APIs, and user interfaces that empower customers to understand threats and respond effectively. You will own end-to-end projects, collaborating with product managers, designers, and data scientists to scale real-time decisions across Stripe’s payments network and bring ML/AI capabilities into production.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language with production software experience.
• Ability to work across systems and learn unfamiliar codebases, making thoughtful trade-offs.
• Rigorous problem solving using data to evaluate solutions.
• Strong collaboration and communication across disciplines.
• Ownership mindset with initiative and follow-through on user problems.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate reliable, low-latency services that detect and prevent fraud and abuse at scale.
• Design APIs and dashboard experiences to help businesses investigate threats and understand Radar protections.
• Develop the shared platform and infrastructure enabling Radar capabilities.
• Work with users to understand emerging threats and translate insights into useful products.
• Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to bring signals and AI into production.
• Own projects end to end from design to rollout, measurement, and iteration.
• Uphold high engineering quality, reliability, and craft while threats evolve.

Skills

2+ years exp

Coding skills

Cross-system work

Problem solving

Collaboration

Ownership mindset

Job description

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Radar Software Engineer in Seattle to build products and infrastructure that help businesses detect and stop fraud.

You will work on backend services, enterprise APIs, and user interfaces that empower customers to understand threats and respond effectively. You will own end-to-end projects, collaborating with product managers, designers, and data scientists to scale real-time decisions across Stripe’s payments network and bring ML/AI capabilities into production.