Staff Software Engineer, Link

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

Link helps Stripe merchants deliver frictionless and secure checkout experiences by auto-filling customers' payment information and enabling one-click checkout across the Link merchant network.

The Link Balance team is building a global consumer financial platform that lets consumers hold, spend, earn rewards on, and off-ramp digital dollars stored as stablecoins and powered by Bridge and Privy.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for large, ambiguous Link initiatives that create new money-movement primitives.
• Own projects end to end, including problem definition, incremental technical planning, stakeholder alignment, delivery, safe launch, and iteration.
• Build robust, scalable backend services and high-quality consumer-facing experiences across Java, Ruby, and TypeScript.
• Lead a project team of engineers through execution by creating clarity around priorities, decisions, risks, and delivery milestones.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk, Infrastructure, and other Stripe teams to build safe, reliable, and useful capabilities.
• Navigate dependencies across Stripe's payments and money-movement platforms while balancing speed, user experience, operational reliability, and durable technical foundations.
• Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, mentoring, and constructive feedback.
• Help shape the team's longer-term roadmap by identifying opportunities, technical risks, and investments needed to scale Link's financial capabilities globally.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience, with a track record of owning large, ambiguous systems end to end.
• Demonstrated technical experience leading the design and delivery of large, complex software projects from early definition through production launch.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, including experience building reliable backend services and polished user-facing product experiences.
• Experience leading and unblocking a group of engineers on a substantial project as a senior individual contributor.
• Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments by framing problems, making durable technical decisions, and creating an actionable path forward.
• Excellent cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration skills.
• Strong engineering judgment around system reliability, operational excellence, security, and maintainability.
• A product-minded approach to engineering, focused on meaningful outcomes for users and the business.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript.
• Experience building payments, money-movement, fintech, or other regulated financial products.
• Experience building consumer products at scale, particularly products requiring a high degree of user trust.
• Experience working on 0-to-1 products or taking new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration.
• Familiarity with stablecoins, digital assets, or infrastructure enabling global financial products.
• Appreciation for good internal and external documentation and seeing projects through to successful completion.