Staff Software Engineer - Financial Crimes Engineering

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 team

Financial Crimes Engineering focuses on increasing the legitimate GDP of the internet by building tools and systems that help us detect, investigate, and ban criminals to protect users, Stripe, and the broader financial ecosystem.

 

As part of the broader Risk Engineering org we leverage and collaborate on scalable abstractions and platforms while focusing deeply on applying them to the rich and nuanced domain of Financial Crimes.

 

We are at the early stages of taking a new approach to how we build, operate, and focus on this critical area for Stripe and the world, and we are looking for talented engineers to join us who are interested in balancing a pragmatic approach to making forward progress with a unrelenting eye towards solving problems for the long term.

 

What you’ll do

We are looking for an engineering leader to drive the technical vision and design for the current and future state of Stripe’s financial crime controls.

 

Responsibilities

• Lead by example in designing, developing, and delivering end-to-end solutions for FC problems along with other Risk engineering leaders and a team of talented engineers
• Partner closely with engineering, product, operations, and policy leadership
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps
• Work in a variety of languages and technologies, including Ruby, Java and Typescript
• Mentor and coach individual contributors to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe

 

Minimum requirements

• 8+ years of experience in full time software development roles.
• 4+ years of experience as a technical leader in a software development role
• You can work effectively across the stack from top to bottom, comfortably navigating codebases with different languages and tools
• Experience as a technical lead, including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
• Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers as their technical leader
• Strong technical written and verbal communication skills
• You work very well cross-functionally and are comfortable making hard decisions and trade-offs 

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (typically, 35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

A remote location, in most cases, is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $209,800 - $314,800. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

We look forward to hearing from you

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us. Apply