Stripe
Staff Software Engineer, Payments Intelligence
New York, Toronto +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- New York, Toronto
US - Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
About the job
Leads technical strategy and hands-on engineering across Stripe’s Payment Intelligence products, building and improving payment-focused systems and experiences.
What you'll do
- Define technical strategy for multiple products, emphasizing quality and performance.
- Establish engineering standards, tooling, and processes to support high-quality code at scale.
- Partner with merchants and cross-functional teams to build software across infrastructure, frontend, APIs, and ML-adjacent work.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
- Experience leading engineering teams working on distributed systems, API design, and user-facing products.
- Track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
- Ability to lead projects, contribute hands-on, and communicate effectively across teams and functions.
Nice to have
- Experience with payments systems and/or fraud detection.
- Familiarity with production ML systems, or experience building 0-1 products.
Tools
Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, Flyte, Airflow, Mongo
AI focus
Works with ML teams and models on AI-first payment intelligence products, including fraud and abuse detection, payment optimization, disputes, authentication, and merchant analytics.
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