Staff Software Engineer, Issuing — Scale Global Card Programs

Monograph; New York (NY); On-site; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonuses

401(k) plan

Medical benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe, a leading financial infrastructure platform, is looking for a senior technologist to own the Issuing technical strategy and end-to-end solutions for critical systems. You will drive architecture decisions across backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces, ensuring reliability and scalability.

You will collaborate with product managers and design, lead cross-functional projects, and mentor senior engineers to grow the next generation of technical leaders on the Issuing team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience across multiple teams or systems.
• 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 developer-friendly interfaces for complex financial requirements.
• Ability to influence technical direction and communicate across engineers, product, and leadership.
• High ownership mindset and ability to define problems and plans.

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 card program configuration.
• Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional partners to drive initiatives from design through launch.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers and contribute to engineering hiring and culture.

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

Staff-level leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical architecture

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Stripe, a leading financial infrastructure platform, is looking for a senior technologist to own the Issuing technical strategy and end-to-end solutions for critical systems. You will drive architecture decisions across backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces, ensuring reliability and scalability.

You will collaborate with product managers and design, lead cross-functional projects, and mentor senior engineers to grow the next generation of technical leaders on the Issuing team.