About 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
Financial Crimes Engineering focuses on increasing the legitimate GDP of the internet by building tools and systems that help us detect, investigate, and ban criminals to protect users, Stripe, and the broader financial ecosystem.
As part of the broader Risk Engineering org we leverage and collaborate on scalable abstractions and platforms while focusing deeply on applying them to the rich and nuanced domain of Financial Crimes.
We are at the early stages of taking a new approach to how we build, operate, and focus on this critical area for Stripe and the world, and we are looking for talented engineers to join us who are interested in balancing a pragmatic approach to making forward progress with a unrelenting eye towards solving problems for the long term.
What you’ll do
We are looking for an engineering leader to drive the technical vision and design for the current and future state of Stripe’s financial crime controls.
Responsibilities
- Lead by example in designing, developing, and delivering end-to-end solutions for FC problems along with other Risk engineering leaders and a team of talented engineers
- Partner closely with engineering, product, operations, and policy leadership
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps
- Work in a variety of languages and technologies, including Ruby, Java and Typescript
- Mentor and coach individual contributors to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe
Minimum requirements
- Direct expertise in Financial Crimes, Risk Compliance, Anti Money Laundering (AML) or similar domain.
- 8+ years of experience in full time software development roles.
- 4+ years of experience as a technical leader in a software development role
- You can work effectively across the stack from top to bottom, comfortably navigating codebases with different languages and tools
- Experience as a technical lead, including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
- Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers as their technical leader
- Strong technical written and verbal communication skills
- You work very well cross-functionally and are comfortable making hard decisions and trade-offs
Top Skills
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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