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# Staff Software Engineer, Payment Systems

- **Company:** Stripe, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Airflow, Distributed Systems, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Ruby, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Stripe, Apache Kafka, Machine Learning Operations, Api Design
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-payment-systems-stripe-9847097

## About the Role

* 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of experience in a strategic technical leadership role
 * Experience leading engineering team(s) 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 also being hands on and contributing directly to technical solutions as necessary
 * Effective communication skills and a proven ability to work cross-team, cross-org, and cross-functionally., * Experience with payments systems and/or fraud detection
 * Familiarity with ML systems in production: model serving, training pipelines, observability, and evaluation
 * Prior experience with 0-1 product builds: you've started with a blank page and ended with a production system, and you have clear opinions about what makes that process go well or poorly
 * Experience across a range of software languages and frameworks; our stack includes Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Flyte, Airflow, and Mongo.
 * Experience navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving organization - you can make confident technical decisions with incomplete information and update gracefully when new constraints emerge

## Description

* Define technical strategy for multiple experiences across the Payment Intelligence portfolio, with a focus on quality and performance
 * Champion a quality-first engineering culture - establish standards, tooling, and processes that make it easy to ship high-quality code at scale
 * Partner with some of Stripe's largest merchants to co-build the future of payment-centric intelligence
 * Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and ML colleagues to ship the very best software possible
 * Work across the stack - contributing to infrastructure and foundational systems, but also FE, API, and ML-adjacent work.


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