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StripeStripeSeattle, WA

Staff Full Stack Engineer, Payments Intelligence

Leads technical strategy and hands-on development across the stack for payment intelligence products, partnering with product, design, ML teams, and major merchants. Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience, strategic technical leadership, and expertise in distributed systems and user-facing products.

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On-site10+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

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 by establishing standards, tooling, and processes that make it easy to ship high-quality code at scale.
  • Partner with large merchants to co-build the future of payment-centric intelligence.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and ML colleagues to ship high-quality software.
  • Work across the stack, contributing to infrastructure and foundational systems as well as frontend, API, and ML-adjacent work.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
  • Experience leading engineering teams 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 remaining hands-on and contributing directly to technical solutions as needed.
  • Effective communication skills and the ability to work across teams, organizations, and functions.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with payment systems and/or fraud detection.
  • Familiarity with ML systems in production, including model serving, training pipelines, observability, and evaluation.
  • Experience building 0-to-1 products from initial concept through production.
  • Experience across software languages and frameworks such as Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Flyte, Airflow, and MongoDB.
  • Experience navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving organization and making confident technical decisions with incomplete information.

Skills

Distributed SystemsAPI DesignMachine Learningmodel servingtraining pipelinesObservabilityevaluationJavaRubyPythonTypeScriptKafkaflyteAirflowMongoDB
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