Staff Software Engineer Money Management Risk

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the Team

The Money Management Risk team sits at the heart of Stripes rapidly growing Money Management product suitethe products that let Stripe users manage their funds optimize FX manage liquidity payout vendors issue cards access financing and run their entire financial lifecycle on Stripe. Money Management was a headline launch at Sessions 25 and continues to be one of Stripes highest-growth investment areas.

Within Money Management our team owns the risk compliance and fraud layer across the full products surface. We build the systems that make it possible for Stripe to offer the money management products responsibly and at scale from onboarding eligibility decisions and ongoing compliance controls to ML-powered fraud detection and real-time transaction monitoring. Our work touches every Money Management product and every stage of the user lifecycle.

We sit at a unique crossroads: we work across nearly every Money Management product partner deeply with many cross functional teams and ship user-facing controls APIs and internal systems that are foundational to Stripes ability to offer financial products at the pace and scale our users demand.

What youll do

We are seeking an experienced technical leader to shape the evolution of our technical and product vision for risk across Money Management. You will partner with engineering managers senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to set the direction and drive architecture decisions that affect multiple product areas.

Responsibilities

• Own and build solutions to high-impact complex problems. Navigate the inherent tension between delivering the best possible user experience and enforcing the risk controls that keep Stripe and its users safe.
• Design and build core systems. Youll write code review designs and stay close to the technical details.
• Navigate ambiguous technical challenges breaking down complex problems into actionable solutions and driving them from inception to successful deployment.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders including compliance risk strategists and product managers to shape the right solutions.
• Partner with Engineering Management Product Managers and key leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer-term vision.
• Enable the team to execute effectively against both short-term and long-term roadmaps making tradeoffs that balance business priorities user experience and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Mentor and develop other team members to become the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe.

Who you are

Were looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 10 years of engineering experience or equivalent with a track record of designing and building high-impact products and systems.
• Proven experience as a technical lead. Youve defined roadmaps driven architecture decisions and delivered complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions.
• You have a user-first mindset; you care deeply about the product experience and the users who rely on the systems you build.
• Youre self-directed and can operate autonomously across multiple teams to deliver scaled impact.
• Empathy and strong communication skills. You can convey complex technical topics with clarity to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders. Able to drive clear next steps in ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership.
• Thrive in ambiguous fast-moving environments and have a curiosity to learn the domain to a deep level.
• Mentored senior engineers and meaningfully empowered their growth.

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with compliance risk or fraud systems.
• Experience working in payments fintech or financial services platforms.
• Experience working in high-growth teams similar to Stripe.

Required Experience:

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