Staff Software Engineer — Money Movement Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Company bonus

401(k)

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of new money-movement capabilities in Link. You will own large, cross-functional projects from definition through launch, partnering with teams across payments, risk, and infrastructure.

You’ll build robust backend services and consumer-facing experiences in Java, Ruby, and TypeScript, shaping the long-term roadmap for global money movement with a strong focus on safety and reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years backend/full-stack software development experience, with ownership of large systems.
• Led design and delivery of large, complex software projects end-to-end.
• Strong full-stack skills; reliable backend services and polished user experiences.
• Experience leading and unblocking a group of engineers as a senior contributor.
• Ability to operate in high-ambiguity environments and make durable technical decisions.
• Excellent cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration skills.
• Strong engineering judgment around reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Product-minded approach to engineering with meaningful outcomes for users and business.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy, architecture, and execution for large, ambiguous Link initiatives that create new money-movement primitives.
• Own projects end to end: clarify the problem, define an incremental technical plan, drive delivery, launch safely, and use results to guide further investment.
• Build robust, scalable backend services and high-quality consumer-facing experiences across Java, Ruby, and TypeScript.
• Lead a project team of engineers through execution, creating clarity on priorities, decisions, risks, and delivery milestones.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk, Infrastructure, and other Stripe teams to build safe, reliable, and useful capabilities.
• Navigate dependencies across Stripe’s payments and money-movement platforms, balancing speed, UX, reliability, and foundations.
• Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, mentoring, and feedback.
• Help shape the team’s longer-term roadmap by identifying opportunities and investments to scale Link globally.

Skills

Backend & Frontend Engineering

Leadership of large projects

Cross-functional collaboration

System reliability & security

Product-minded engineering

Tools

Java

Ruby

TypeScript

Job description

Stripe, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of new money-movement capabilities in Link. You will own large, cross-functional projects from definition through launch, partnering with teams across payments, risk, and infrastructure.

You’ll build robust backend services and consumer-facing experiences in Java, Ruby, and TypeScript, shaping the long-term roadmap for global money movement with a strong focus on safety and reliability.