Staff Backend Architect: Real-Time Risk & AI Platform Lead

Stripe, Inc.; Dublin (CA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will architect, scale, and mentor a small team, delivering high-throughput, real-time risk decisioning systems that enable compliant merchant onboarding and worldwide expansion.

You'll collaborate with ML, risk, product, and engineering partners to ship robust APIs and stateful services in a fast-moving financial infrastructure environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Technical lead or staff engineer with multi-quarter initiatives.
• Strong API design, data models and durable backend architectures.
• Excellent communication and leadership across distributed teams.
• Fluency in a modern backend language (Ruby, Go, Java, Python, or C++).

Responsibilities

• Lead the canonical Supportability Decision Layer architecture and delivery.
• Architect AI/ML orchestration pipelines and low-latency determinations.
• Design high-throughput, low-latency backend services balancing safety and onboarding.
• Define domain models, contracts, and interfaces across risk detection work.
• Mentor the Dublin team and align with global partner teams.

Job description

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

You will architect, scale, and mentor a small team, delivering high-throughput, real-time risk decisioning systems that enable compliant merchant onboarding and worldwide expansion.

You'll collaborate with ML, risk, product, and engineering partners to ship robust APIs and stateful services in a fast-moving financial infrastructure environment.