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Define technical strategy for multiple Payment Intelligence experiences, set quality and performance standards, and build tooling and processes that enable high‑quality code at scale. Partner directly with Stripe’s largest merchants and cross‑functional product, design, and ML teams. Contribute across the stack—from infrastructure and APIs to front‑end and ML‑adjacent components.
10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in a strategic technical leadership role. Proven background leading teams building distributed systems, API design, and user‑facing products. Strong communication skills and ability to work cross‑team, cross‑org, and cross‑functionally.
Payment Intelligence powers AI‑first solutions that protect every Stripe transaction, drive revenue, and safeguard the broader ecosystem. The role shapes the quality and performance of fraud detection, payment optimization, and merchant analytics tools. Success directly impacts Stripe’s mission to increase the internet’s GDP.
Engineers who thrive on both high‑level technical strategy and hands‑on implementation. Candidates comfortable with large distributed systems, full‑stack work, and collaborating with ML and merchant partners. Those who enjoy building 0‑1 products and navigating ambiguity in a fast‑moving environment.
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.
Payment Intelligence is comprised of multiple product teams building AI-first solutions to some of our customers’ biggest challenges, including fraud/abuse (Radar), payment optimizations (AuthBoost), Disputes, Authentication, and merchant analytics. We’re a mix of machine engineering engineers and full-stack software engineers impacting ~every Stripe transaction, creating revenue opportunities for Stripe and our customers, and helping protect the broader ecosystem.
We have the benefit and privilege of working on cutting edge technologies with incredible scale and reach while also working directly with our merchants every day to build the right products for their needs.
As a Staff Engineer on Payment Intelligence, you’ll work across our product portfolio to ensure we’re building in a consistent, efficient, and effective manner. Experience with large, distributed systems on the critical path will help candidates succeed, as will comfort working across the stack and interacting with ML teams and models.
