Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$224,000–$336,000 / yr
Posted
35 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $280k
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This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $198,900–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $280k versus about $227k for comparable roles.

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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 173 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 171 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence

As a Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence, you will join a team building AI-first solutions to address critical challenges such as fraud, abuse, payment optimizations, disputes, authentication, and merchant analytics. You will define technical strategies for the portfolio while championing a quality-first engineering culture by establishing standards and tooling for high-quality code at scale. Your daily work involves collaborating with product, design, and machine learning teams to build infrastructure, foundational systems, front-end components, and API designs. You will navigate complex distributed systems on the critical path to solve payment-centric intelligence problems. The role requires expertise in Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Flyte, Airflow, and Mongo. You must possess experience with machine learning systems, including model serving and training pipelines, while delivering pragmatic solutions for large-scale merchant needs.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 326 postings across 28 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define technical strategy for multiple experiences across the Payment Intelligence portfolio focusing on quality and performance.
  • Establish engineering standards, tooling, and processes to facilitate shipping high-quality code at scale.
  • Partner with large merchants to co-build future payment-centric intelligence products.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and machine learning teams to deliver software.
  • Contribute across the full stack including infrastructure, foundational systems, frontend, APIs, and ML-adjacent work.
  • Deliver pragmatic technical solutions that accelerate business growth for the company and its customers.
  • Drive high-level projects while remaining hands-on in contributing directly to technical solutions.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of experience 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 high-level projects while remaining hands-on with direct technical contributions.
  • Effective communication skills and a proven ability to work cross-team and cross-functionally.
  • Experience with payment systems or fraud detection (preferred).
  • Familiarity with ML systems in production, including model serving, training pipelines, observability, and evaluation (preferred).

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