Staff Software Engineer, Money Movement Platform

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.

About the 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 core financial APIs (balances, transfers, payouts) to financial integrations and infrastructure that abstracts payment networks globally.

Responsibilities

• Help define and lead the technical roadmap for Money Movement.
• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
• Ensure 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 and lead technical conversations across Payments Infrastructure and Stripe.
• Run, design, and conduct code reviews for key components and ships in Money Movement.
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Pair with the engineering manager to mentor and develop senior engineering talent.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

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 complex financial and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to influence technical direction and align multiple teams without direct authority, with excellent written and verbal communication.
• High ownership mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to define the problem and plan.

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, including compliance-aware system design, audit trails, financial controls, or KYC/KYB flows.
• Background in embedded finance, card-as-a-service, or Banking-as-a-Service platforms.
• Experience with high-volume event-driven architectures and their reliability/consistency tradeoffs.
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers and contributing meaningfully to engineering hiring and culture.