Staff Software Engineer: Lead 0→1 Startup Products (Remote)

Stripe, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Startup Products to shape the technical strategy and lead major 0→1 initiatives from exploration through launch.

You will collaborate across product surfaces, services, APIs, data models, and integrations with internal and external systems, partnering with Product, Design, Legal, Data, Operations, and engineers to create experiences that feel simple and trustworthy for founders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience owning large, ambiguous systems end-to-end.
• Demonstrated experience delivering large, ambiguous software initiatives from early product and technical exploration through production launch.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, including backend services and polished user-facing experiences.
• Ability to create technical direction and align teams with different priorities without direct authority.
• Product-minded engineering judgment with focus on user outcomes for business impact.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, capable of moving between strategy and detail.
• High quality bar and attention to reliability, documentation and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical strategy across Startup Products, linking near-term delivery to a durable engineering vision.
• Lead large, ambiguous 0→1 initiatives from problem definition and architecture through implementation, launch and iteration.
• Design, build, and maintain polished user experiences, reliable backend services, APIs, and systems.
• Identify technical risks and dependencies early, creating incremental plans to de-risk the roadmap.
• Partner with Stripe engineering teams, aligning roadmaps and priorities across shared capabilities.
• Work with founders to translate complex legal, financial, and operational workflows into intuitive products.
• Raise the team’s engineering bar through standards, docs, mentoring, and constructive feedback.
• Advise leadership on opportunities, constraints, and investments to support long-term ambitions.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Ambiguity ownership

Technical leadership

Communication

Tools

Ruby

TypeScript

Job description

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Startup Products to shape the technical strategy and lead major 0→1 initiatives from exploration through launch.

You will collaborate across product surfaces, services, APIs, data models, and integrations with internal and external systems, partnering with Product, Design, Legal, Data, Operations, and engineers to create experiences that feel simple and trustworthy for founders.