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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Link - **Company:** Stripe, Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $224,000.0 - $336,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Digital Assets, Ruby, TypeScript, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Stripe - **Published:** September 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pm2uq0sei1 ## About the Role * 8+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience, with a track record of owning large, ambiguous systems end-to-end. * Demonstrated technical experience leading the design and delivery of large, complex software projects from early definition through production launch. * Strong full-stack engineering skills, including experience building reliable backend services and polished user-facing product experiences. * Experience leading and unblocking a group of engineers on a substantial project as a senior individual contributor. * Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments: framing problems, making durable technical decisions, and creating an actionable path forward. * Excellent cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration skills, with the ability to align teams with different systems, priorities, and constraints. * Strong engineering judgment around system reliability, operational excellence, security, and maintainability. * A product-minded approach to engineering, with a focus on delivering meaningful outcomes for users and the business., * Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript. We care more about strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn than expertise in a particular language or framework. * Experience building payments, money-movement, fintech, or other regulated financial products. * Experience building consumer products at scale, particularly products that require a high degree of user trust. * Experience working on 0*1 products or taking new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration. * Familiarity with stablecoins, digital assets, or the infrastructure that enables global financial products. * Appreciation for the importance of good documentation-internal and external-and taking pride in seeing projects through to successful completion Hybrid work at Stripe ## Description We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of new money-movement capabilities in Link. You will take ambiguous product opportunities and turn them into reliable, scalable, and intuitive experiences for consumers and merchants. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with broad technical and organizational scope. You will own large, cross-functional projects from early product and technical definition through launch and iteration; lead teams of engineers through complex execution; and partner closely with the many Stripe systems and teams that make money movement possible. You will work across the stack, building services and APIs as well as the user experiences that expose those capabilities. The work may involve modern financial infrastructure-including stablecoin-enabled capabilities-while requiring sound judgment around safety, reliability, compliance, and user trust. You will make the architectural decisions that let the balance model scale globally, and raise the engineering bar for the team as we grow. Responsibilities * Lead the 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, align stakeholders, 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 capabilities that are safe, reliable, and useful. * Navigate dependencies across Stripe's payments and money-movement platforms, making thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, user experience, operational reliability, and durable technical foundations. * Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, mentoring, and constructive feedback across the team. * Help shape the team's longer-term roadmap by identifying opportunities, technical risks, and investments needed to scale Link's financial capabilities globally., Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams., Stripe builds financial tools and economic infrastructure for the internet. 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