Stripe
Staff Software Engineer, Money Movement Platform
SEA, San Francisco +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Location
- SEA, San Francisco
US - Experience
- 10+ years of industry software engineering experience; demonstrated impact at staff or equivalent scope.
About the job
Leads the technical direction and development of Stripe’s money movement APIs, services, and infrastructure, enabling reliable, scalable transfers and payouts globally.
What you'll do
- Define the technical roadmap and design, build, and maintain large-scale money movement APIs, services, and systems.
- Ensure infrastructure is scalable, reliable, financially correct, and meets service-level requirements; resolve critical production issues.
- Lead technical decisions across teams and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of industry software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact at a staff or equivalent scope.
- Track record designing and shipping large-scale user-facing products with highly available, financially correct distributed backend systems.
- Experience leading cross-functional engineering projects end-to-end, from requirements through delivery and post-launch iteration.
- Strong API design, technical influence, ownership, and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time transaction processing systems or card network protocols and bank integrations.
- Experience in regulated financial services, embedded finance, or high-volume event-driven architectures; mentoring senior engineers.
Tools
APIs, distributed backend systems, event-driven architectures, Visa, Mastercard
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