Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Identity

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NYSeattleSouth San Francisco, CA
Salary
$224,000–$336,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 135 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 132 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Identity

As a Staff Software Engineer, Link - Consumer Identity, you will join the Link team to lead the design and delivery of new money-movement capabilities. You will transform ambiguous product opportunities into reliable, scalable, and intuitive experiences for consumers and merchants. This hands-on individual-contributor role involves owning large, cross-functional projects from early technical definition through launch. You will build services and APIs as well as user experiences using Java, Ruby, and TypeScript. Your work involves modern financial infrastructure, including stablecoin-enabled capabilities, while ensuring safety, reliability, and compliance. You will make architectural decisions to scale the balance model globally, navigate dependencies across payments platforms, and lead teams of engineers through complex execution to create new money-movement primitives within a regulated financial product environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $214000 from 255 postings across 59 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for large-scale money-movement initiatives.
  • Own projects end-to-end from initial problem definition and technical planning through launch and iteration.
  • Build scalable backend services and consumer-facing experiences using Java, Ruby, and TypeScript.
  • Lead teams of engineers by clarifying priorities, risks, and delivery milestones for complex projects.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure capabilities are safe, reliable, and compliant.
  • Navigate dependencies across payment platforms while balancing speed, user experience, and operational reliability.
  • Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, and mentoring team members.
  • Shape the long-term roadmap by identifying technical risks and global scaling opportunities.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience owning large, ambiguous systems end-to-end.
  • Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of large, complex software projects from early definition through production launch.
  • Strong full-stack engineering skills 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 in high-ambiguity environments by framing problems and making durable technical decisions.
  • Excellent cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration skills to align teams with different systems and priorities.
  • Strong engineering judgment regarding system reliability, operational excellence, security, and maintainability.
  • Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript (preferred).

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