Staff Engineer, Issuing

Posted 12 Days Ago
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San Francisco, CA
Senior level
Payments • Software
The Role
The Staff Engineer in Issuing at Stripe will lead the technical direction and strategy in developing APIs for card programs, optimize transaction authorization, and improve data pipelines. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and ensure the reliability and scalability of mission-critical systems.
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Who we areAbout Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Stripe builds economic infrastructure for the internet. We’re moving beyond payments and “up the stack” to help our users run their businesses more effectively. Issuing is developing new APIs to empower businesses to launch physical and virtual card programs. We aim to help businesses deploy novel use cases that rely on fully programmable payment instruments.

You can read more here:

  • Product pages: Issuing & Treasury
  • Recent News:
    • Stripe launches charge card program for Stripe Issuing
    • Stripe Issuing launches in Europe

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a seasoned technical leader to drive the technical direction and strategy for the Issuing Transactions organization. Our teams own mission-critical systems in the Issuing Transactions space, including:

  • Authorization flows that allow our users to reliably and efficiently approve or decline transactions on issued cards.
  • Data pipelines and services that work seamlessly with partner networks to ensure accurate Clearing and Settlement of transactions.
  • APIs and tools that empower our users and platforms with essential products and features for their user growth.

As a staff engineer on Issuing, you’ll work with engineering managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional partners to design the technical underpinnings of the product. At the same time, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to be hands-on building key systems, and will be directly responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale technical efforts as well acting as a technical mentor and leader for other engineers.

Issuing is one of Stripe’s biggest bets. The right technical leadership will allow us to scale faster and more reliably as our business accelerates. If that sounds exciting, we’d love to speak with you.

Responsibilities

  • Work with engineers & technical leaders across the company to ship interoperable products on strong foundations
  • Build high quality end-to-end product experiences for platforms 
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling and processes
  • Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps.
  • Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
  • Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale, and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems
  • Advise Stripe leadership on key technology and product roadmap considerations
  • Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
  • Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

  • 10+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Comfortable being truly full stack, navigating codebases with different languages and tools
  • Experience as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
  • Ability to internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
  • Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels.
  • Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers as their technical leader

Preferred qualifications

  • You have a strong technical background, including 10+ years experience designing and engineering products, user surfaces, and APIs for high-impact products
  • You are comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
  • You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team
  • Senior engineers feel they are able to learn from you, and you care deeply about mentoring others.
  • You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
  • You enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Sales and Support to better understand our customers’ needs, Legal and Accounting to understand how global policies influence our money-movement infrastructure, etc.

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The Company
HQ: Dublin, Dublin
5,360 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

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.

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