Staff Engineer, Issuing
Core
Define and drive technical strategy for Stripe's card issuing product, including APIs, backend services, and user-facing surfaces for spend, debit, and charge cards.
Role type
Staff Engineer, Issuing
Builds
Infrastructure and interfaces for creating, distributing, and controlling payment cards at scale for businesses and platforms.
Domain
Financial infrastructure / Payment systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Multi-year architecture design, large-scale distributed systems, API design, cross-functional leadership, technical strategy, operational rigor, mentoring
Preferred skills
Real-time transaction processing, card network protocols, regulated financial services compliance, embedded finance platforms, event-driven architectures
Technologies
None explicitly stated
Responsibilities
Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems handling billions of money movement requests; Debug critical production issues; Mentor senior engineers; Collaborate with stakeholders to build new features and improve engineering standards.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership