Senior Staff Engineer, Card Issuing & Payments Platform

Triwill Group; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Issuing team to lead technical strategy and architecture across backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces. You will own end-to-end solutions for critical systems like authorization flows, spending controls, and cardholder management, ensuring reliability, scalability, and platform health.

Collaborating with product, design, and cross-functional partners, you will drive multi-year plans, mentor senior engineers, and help expand

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry software engineering experience at staff level.
• Proven track record shipping large-scale user-facing products with distributed backends.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering projects end-to-end.
• Strong API design instincts for developer-friendly interfaces in finance.
• Ability to influence direction across teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define a long-term technical strategy for Issuing across backend services and APIs.
• Own end-to-end solutions for critical systems, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Identify investments for geographic expansion and new card program types.
• Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional partners to drive initiatives.
• Build clear roadmaps balancing near-term delivery and long-term health.
• Advise leadership on technical trade-offs and business impact.
• Drive engineering standards, tooling, and operational rigor.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leaders.

Skills

Software engineering

API design

Distributed systems

Leadership

Communication

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Issuing team to lead technical strategy and architecture across backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces. You will own end-to-end solutions for critical systems like authorization flows, spending controls, and cardholder management, ensuring reliability, scalability, and platform health.

Collaborating with product, design, and cross-functional partners, you will drive multi-year plans, mentor senior engineers, and help expand