Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NYSeattleSouth San Francisco, CA
Salary
$224,000–$406,800 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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Above market

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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $198,000–$241,512 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $315k versus about $220k 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 131 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 128 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence

The Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence joins a team building AI-first solutions for fraud, payment optimizations, disputes, authentication, and merchant analytics. In this role, you will define technical strategies for multiple experiences across the portfolio, focusing on quality and performance. You will champion a quality-first engineering culture by establishing standards and tooling while partnering with large merchants to co-build payment-centric intelligence. Your daily work involves collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and ML colleagues to ship software across the stack, including infrastructure, APIs, and front-end components. You will utilize a technical stack featuring Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Flyte, Airflow, and Mongo. This position solves critical business problems by managing large distributed systems on the critical path for global payment transactions.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $216000 from 270 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define technical strategy for multiple experiences across the Payment Intelligence portfolio.
  • Establish engineering standards, tooling, and processes to ship high-quality code at scale.
  • Partner with large merchants to co-build payment-centric intelligence products.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and ML colleagues to ship high-quality software.
  • Contribute to infrastructure, foundational systems, frontend, APIs, and ML-adjacent work.
  • Drive high-level projects while remaining hands-on in contributing 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 in contributing to technical solutions.
  • Effective communication skills and a proven ability to work cross-team and cross-functionally.
  • Experience with payments systems and/or fraud detection (preferred).
  • Familiarity with ML systems in production, including model serving, training pipelines, observability, and evaluation (preferred).

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