Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence
Core
Define technical strategy for Payment Intelligence portfolio (fraud/abuse, payment optimizations, disputes, authentication, merchant analytics) and champion quality-first engineering culture across distributed systems.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Strategic Technical Leadership)
Builds
AI-first payment solutions impacting every Stripe transaction
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, API design, cross-stack engineering (FE, API, ML-adjacent), strategic technical leadership, hands-on coding, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Payments systems and fraud detection, production ML systems (model serving, training pipelines, observability), 0-1 product builds, multi-language proficiency (Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Flyte, Airflow, Mongo), navigating ambiguity
