Staff Engineer, Payment Intelligence — Scale Global Payments

Socket.dev; Seattle, San Francisco (WA, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Staff Engineer for Payment Intelligence in Seattle to scale AI-first analytics and fraud-prevention capabilities for merchants. You will drive technical strategy, collaborate with ML teams and product partners, and guide engineers across FE, API, and infrastructure.

You will mentor teams, influence cross-functional decisions, and deliver high-impact systems in a fast-growing environment. This role emphasizes leadership, hands-on contribution, and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
• Experience leading engineering team(s) working 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

Leadership

Distributed systems

API design

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

Java

Ruby

Python

TypeScript

Kafka

Flyte

Airflow

Mongo

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Staff Engineer for Payment Intelligence in Seattle to scale AI-first analytics and fraud-prevention capabilities for merchants. You will drive technical strategy, collaborate with ML teams and product partners, and guide engineers across FE, API, and infrastructure.

You will mentor teams, influence cross-functional decisions, and deliver high-impact systems in a fast-growing environment. This role emphasizes leadership, hands-on contribution, and measurable impact.