Responsibilities

Define and drive the technical architecture of Billing’s extensibility platform, setting patterns and standards that scale across teams
Identify high-leverage extension points across Stripe's billing system and partner with Billing domain teams to build them into their products as extensible, first-class features
Own end-to-end technical solutioning for complex, novel problems — from initial design through production delivery — in an evolving product environment
Build resilient systems that handle failures gracefully, including novel failure modes introduced by user-authored logic running inside Stripe's billing engine
Drive adoption of Billing's extension capabilities by external customers and internal Billing teams, iterating based on real-world usage
Collaborate with Billing leadership, product managers, and Extensibility platform teams to define and execute the team's technical roadmap
Mentor engineers on the team and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on collaboration

Requirements

12+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of leading large, complex software projects that span multiple teams and organizations
Experience as a technical lead on a team building external-facing products for customers
Deep software architecture knowledge, including distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, and resilient system design
Demonstrated ability to build alignment and drive large initiatives forward across organizational boundaries — without direct authority
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including producing clear technical documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences

Experience in fintech, payments, or billing systems
Platform engineering experience — building tools, abstractions, or frameworks for use by internal engineering teams
Background in domain-driven design or building extensible systems (e.g., plugin architectures, programmable platforms, or scriptable workflows)
Experience iterating on an early-stage product from initial adoption through growth, including hardening a system for production at scale