Staff Engineer, Payment Intelligence & AI Systems

Monograph; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonus

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Staff Engineer for Payment Intelligence to build AI-first solutions across product teams and scale with the organization. You will influence architecture, collaborate with ML groups, and drive cross-functional initiatives to protect and optimize payment flows.

You’ll be responsible for defining technical strategy, leading engineers on distributed systems, and delivering pragmatic, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
• Experience leading engineering teams on distributed systems, API design, and user facing products.
• Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
• Ability to drive projects at a high level while also being hands on and contributing directly to technical solutions as necessary.
• Effective communication skills and a proven ability to work cross-team, cross-org, and cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy for multiple experiences across the Payment Intelligence portfolio, with a focus on quality and performance
• Champion a quality-first engineering culture - establish standards, tooling, and processes that make it easy to ship high-quality code at scale
• Partner with some of Stripe’s largest merchants to co-build the future of payment-centric intelligence
• Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and ML colleagues to ship the very best software possible
• Work across the stack - contributing to infrastructure and foundational systems, but also FE, API, and ML-adjacent work.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hands-on engineering

Technical communication

Tools

Java

Ruby

Python

TypeScript

Kafka

Flyte

Airflow

Mongo

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Staff Engineer for Payment Intelligence to build AI-first solutions across product teams and scale with the organization. You will influence architecture, collaborate with ML groups, and drive cross-functional initiatives to protect and optimize payment flows.

You’ll be responsible for defining technical strategy, leading engineers on distributed systems, and delivering pragmatic, scalable solutions.