Staff Engineer, Card Issuing & Payments Platform

Stripe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe’s Issuing team is seeking a senior technical leader to define the strategy and architecture for the card issuing platform, including backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces. You will own critical systems like authorization, spending controls, and card configuration, ensuring reliability and scale.

You will collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional partners, mentor senior engineers, and drive standards and operational rigor across the organization, shaping the future

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing and shipping large-scale user-facing products with distributed backend systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering projects end-to-end.
• Strong API design instincts and ability to build developer-friendly interfaces.
• Influence technical direction across multiple teams with excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Issuing, including multi-year architecture decisions across backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces.
• Own end-to-end technical solutions for critical systems, authorization flows, spending controls, cardholder management, and program configuration.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers, investing in their technical development.
• Drive engineering standards, tooling improvements, and operational rigor across the team.

Skills

Strong API design

Cross-functional leadership

Excellent communication

Ownership mindset

Job description

Stripe’s Issuing team is seeking a senior technical leader to define the strategy and architecture for the card issuing platform, including backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces. You will own critical systems like authorization, spending controls, and card configuration, ensuring reliability and scale.

You will collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional partners, mentor senior engineers, and drive standards and operational rigor across the organization, shaping the future