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Staff Software Engineer, CAP

US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Evolving the Compartments and Accounts Platform (CAP) architecture to support Stripe's long-term growth, serving as the source of truth for all merchant and connection information.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Platform Architecture)

Builds

Highly scalable and reliable services handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second for Stripe Organizations and connected products.

Domain

Financial infrastructure / Distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Technical visioning, distributed computing systems, hands-on system design, engineering standards, mentorship, stakeholder collaboration

Preferred skills

Microservices architecture design, Java or Ruby

Technologies

Java, Ruby

Responsibilities

Create long-term technical vision and identify incremental delivery paths; Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and performant services; Make significant hands-on contributions to critical projects; Lead by example to uphold high engineering standards; Mentor and coach individual contributors and managers.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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