Staff Software Engineer, Money Movement Platform
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About the Position
Staff Software Engineer, Money Movement Platform
San Francisco, United States
About the Team
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies-from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups-use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the Money Movement Team
Money Movement teams are crucial in helping Stripe build platforms and product experiences that enable businesses all over the world to move money. We are currently looking for someone who can drive the technical vision for how Stripe moves money at a global scale. This role spans the stack, from the core financial APIs that all of Stripe’s products are built on, like balances, transfers, and payouts, to the financial integrations we rely on to move billions of dollars in countries around the world. The teams also run infrastructure that abstracts payment networks globally to expose capabilities for moving money with a variety of characteristics like speed, currency, and cost. We are responsible for ensuring that money gets to its destination quickly, reliably, and in a cost-effective manner.
These systems are extremely central to our plans for the next 5-10 years and building them well will have an enormous impact on Stripe.
Responsibilities
- Help define and lead the technical roadmap for Money Movement.
- Ensure our infrastructure is safely extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets SLAs for both external and internal users.
- Shape future-proof interfaces that are easy to build against and meet the requirements of product teams.
- Help drive sound technical decision-making within Money Movement and lead technical conversations with other teams across Payments Infrastructure and Stripe.
- Run, design, and code review for key components and ships in Money Movement.
- Pair with the engineer manager to mentor and develop senior engineering talent on the teams.
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- 10+ years of industry software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact at a staff or equivalent scope (leading initiatives across multiple teams or systems).
- Proven track record designing and shipping large-scale user-facing products with distributed backend systems that are both highly available and financially correct.
- Experience leading cross-functional engineering projects end-to-end, from requirements through architecture, delivery, and post-launch iteration.
- Strong API design instincts and the ability to build simple, developer-friendly interfaces over inherently complex financial and regulatory requirements.
- Ability to influence technical direction and align multiple teams without direct authority, with excellent written and verbal communication across engineers, product, and leadership.
- High ownership mindset, such as comfortable with ambiguity, able to define the problem and the plan, not just execute a predefined spec.
- Clear, precise communication on complex technical topics for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or operating real-time transaction processing systems with strict latency and correctness requirements (authorizations, payments, ledgering, settlement).
- Familiarity with card network protocols, BIN sponsorship models, or issuing bank integrations (Visa, Mastercard, or equivalent).
- Experience in regulated financial services such as compliance-aware system design, audit trails, financial controls, or KYC or KYB flows.
- Background in embedded finance, card-as-a-service, or Banking-as-a-Service platforms. Experience with high-volume event-driven architectures and the reliability and consistency tradeoffs they introduce.
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and contributing meaningfully to engineering hiring and culture.
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work in a leading financial technology company
- Collaborative and innovative work environment
- Professional growth and development opportunities
About the Company
Stripe is a global technology company building economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size-from new startups to public companies-use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online.
Join us in our mission to increase the GDP of the internet.
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