Staff Fullstack Engineer, User Auth Experience

Stripe; United States; On-site; USD 204,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is hiring for a leadership role on the User Auth Experience team in the United States. You will shape the team’s vision, mentor peers, and lead by example across authentication, login and account security experiences.

You’ll work with partner engineering teams to build secure, reusable access controls and define end-to-end identity workflows. As a senior engineer, you’ll build well-tested APIs and UI components, contribute to the defense strategy, and drive the rollout of scalable

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in full-time software development roles.
• Experience as a technical lead guiding your team and roadmap.
• Experience in frontend and backend across the stack.
• Thrives in a collaborative environment with other teams.
• Excellent oral and written communication.

Responsibilities

• Build beautiful web experiences and secure full-stack authentication machinery.
• Make tradeoffs that balance business priorities and user experience.
• Drive technical decisions and lead conversations with Stripe teams.
• Shape your team’s culture, roadmap and vision through guidance.
• Mentor teammates and maintain a high bar for excellence and curiosity.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Technical leadership

Security & authentication

IAM concepts

Frontend & Backend

Developer tooling

Job description

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

Who we are

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About The Team

Large, complex businesses on Stripe have historically had to create a new Stripe account for each global entity or business unit—making it difficult to unify reporting and manage payment operations across all accounts. Our customers want a way to manage these accounts under one umbrella so they can operate at scale more efficiently. We are responsible for building Organizations, which allows merchants to effectively and centrally manage their businesses across multiple Stripe accounts. As Stripe continues to grow its suite of product offerings beyond payments, Organizations will unlock a new phase of growth for Stripe. We will do this by enabling our platforms and businesses to model their complex businesses and distribute all of Stripe’s products to their end users. You can read more about what we are working on here (our Stripe Blog).

What you’ll do

As a leader on the User Auth Experience team, you will help shape the team’s vision and roadmap, guide and mentor your peers, and lead by example. Authentication, Login, and general Account Security experiences are deeply cross-cutting areas at Stripe with critical security, safety, and quality considerations. You will work with many partner teams: peer engineering organizations to build robust/reusable/standardized access controls, as well as non-engineer groups to shape the security, beauty, and usability of the end-to-end journey of Stripe account authentication. You’ll play a major role in Stripe’s defense strategy, keeping users and data protected from fraudulent activity through intelligently assessing risk and refining user workflows accordingly. As an engineer on the team, you’ll directly build well-tested APIs, UX/UI pieces, and analytics engines for defining and measuring the full-stack Dashboard authentication story, elevating the experience for every end user. By creating and expanding these account management “building blocks”, you’ll build out a generalized authentication platform that can be leveraged to bring best-in-class usability and security to multiple Stripe-owned surfaces—multiplying the efforts of product teams to more quickly and confidently build safe, controlled features.

Responsibilities

• Build beautiful web experiences and secure full-stack authentication machinery that impacts millions of users
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Drive sound technical decision-making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Stripe
• Shape your team’s culture, roadmap, and vision through your guidance, mentorship, foresight, and technical and social expertise.
• As a leader within Engineering, assist with growth and development of your team and organization while maintaining a high bar for excellence and technical curiosity

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in full-time software development roles
• Experience as a technical lead by guiding your team, influencing its roadmap, and overseeing complex projects spanning multiple teams
• Experience in both frontend and backend, with strong ability to work as a generalist across the stack
• Thrive in a collaborative environment with other teams to identify high-impact ways of solving problems quickly
• Excellent oral and written communication

Preferred Qualifications

• You strive for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale well
• Expertise working at the intersection of security and authentication systems, with the ability to drive partnerships with our Security and Fraud partner teams.
• Strong understanding of IAM concepts, including Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and identity governance.
• Experience building scalable, resilient, and observable systems while understanding UX best practices for the frontend
• You can put yourself in the shoes of your users to understand their needs and fit that into the bigger picture
• You stitch together many different services and processes, even if you have not worked with them before
• Experience with building software for fellow developers

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $203,600 - $305,400. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.