Who we are

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

Stripe builds economic infrastructure for the internet. We’re moving
beyond payments and “up the stack” to help our users run their
businesses more effectively. Issuing is developing new APIs to empower
businesses to launch physical and virtual card programs. We aim to help
businesses deploy novel use cases that rely on fully programmable
payment instruments.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a seasoned technical leader to help architect
Issuing’s future foundations. As a staff engineer on Issuing, you’ll
work with engineering managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional
partners to design the technical underpinnings of the product. At the
same time, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to be hands-on building
key systems, and will be directly responsible for the successful
delivery of large-scale technical efforts.

Issuing is one of Stripe’s biggest bets. The right technical leadership
will allow us to scale faster and more reliably as our business
accelerates. If that sounds exciting, we’d love to speak with you.

Responsibilities

• Directly responsible for identifying and building the right technical
  foundations needed for Issuing to scale
  
• Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the
  groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale,
  and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems
  
• Advise Stripe leadership on key technology and product roadmap
  considerations
  
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic
  initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new
  businesses
  
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing
  infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution
  is prudent
  
• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make
  effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user
  experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
  
• Teach and mentor both individual contributors and managers to become
  the next generation of leaders at Stripe. As a senior member on a new
  team, you will be looked to for guidance
  

Who you are

We’re 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

• You have a strong technical background, including 10+ years of
  experience designing and engineering large-scale systems
  
• You are comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions,
  seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
  
• You have served as the technical lead and defined the roadmap for
  complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
  
• You measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of
  code
  
• You internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly
  setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
  
• You work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all
  levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join
  your team
  

Preferred qualifications

• Senior engineers feel they are able to learn from you. You care deeply
  about mentoring and growing engineers
  
• You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a
  good intuition for what will last and scale
  
• You enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas
  of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Sales
  and Support to better understand our customers’ needs, Legal and
  Accounting to understand how global policies influence our
  money-movement infrastructure, etc.