Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails.
Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link. We get to solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers like Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo — powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives.
Learn more about Privy: Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone
About the teamEngineering at Privy is distinguished by:
- High urgency: Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly.
- Product taste: Our customers are developers, and to build effective products for them requires technical knowledge - you will often be "the PM".
- Security mindset: A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start.
In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers.
What you'll do- Design and build the backend systems that power wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure at scale
- Create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to build faster
- Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform
- Help shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work
- Deep experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
- An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
- Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
- An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- A growth mindset, a constant curiosity, and fearlessness to dive into the unknown
- An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation
- Experience in an API-driven business within payments, fintech, or crypto
- Built or contributed to open-source developer tooling
- Published work (open source code, talks, blog posts, etc.)
- Experience working with blockchain protocols and designing or interacting with smart contracts
- Experience in authentication, identity, or security
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
- Understanding of modern API development best practices and design
- Experience in building data models, managing database migrations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Stripe Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stripe and has not been reviewed or approved by Stripe.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is robust, with medical, dental, and vision options for employees and dependents, plus mental-health resources and wellness support. Public materials also highlight wellness stipends that complement core insurance offerings.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Compensation packages often include equity grants or stock options alongside competitive salaries and performance-based bonuses, creating meaningful upside. Sales roles may also include commissions, broadening incentive opportunities.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-planning benefits include fertility coverage and adoption assistance, paired with generous parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents. These offerings sit alongside ample PTO and flexible scheduling in many teams.
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What We Do
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook—use the company’s software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Over the long term, Stripe aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
