Staff Engineer, Payments
Stripe · Posted Sep 21
Online payment processing, billing, and financial infrastructure services
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About the role
Payments is at the core of Stripe's mission to increase the GDP of the internet, and the India Payments team is expanding Stripe's payments footprint in the market. As a Staff Engineer on the India Payments team, you will build on Stripe's foundational platforms and lead the architectural evolution of critical systems that process money movement every millisecond, shaping integration with local payment rails, payment initiation and routing, reliable completion, and automated reconciliation and settlement. Partnering with engineering teams and cross-functional partners globally, you will solve complex, high-stakes technical challenges involving low-latency execution, transactional correctness and idempotency, safe migrations with zero downtime, and resilient distributed-state management.
What you will do
- Design, build and operate secure, reliable and extensible production systems.
- Drive complex initiatives from concept to launch by managing dependencies, making decisive architectural trade-offs and ensuring successful delivery.
- Set a high technical bar through hands-on coding, design and code reviews, rigorous testing, clear documentation and maintainable system design.
- Partner with cross-functional teams and external partners to navigate regulatory and operational complexity, unblock execution and deliver roadmap commitments.
- Own operational excellence by leading incident response and continuously improving system health, security and operational workflows.
- Improve engineering standards, tooling and processes.
- Mentor and develop engineers to cultivate the next generation of leaders at Stripe.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of hands-on experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Proven experience driving the architectural vision for complex, multi-team initiatives, backed by deep expertise in system design, databases and API development.
- Strong track record of end-to-end technical ownership, steering projects from concept to delivery while proactively influencing both technical and product roadmaps.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill highly complex technical concepts for diverse, non-technical audiences.
- A highly collaborative mindset, valuing diverse perspectives and thriving across functional and organizational boundaries.
- Deep user empathy, consistently applying a customer-centric lens to problem-solving and product development.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the payments or financial technology industry is a plus, though not required.
- Experience leading projects across multiple cross-functional teams and timezones.
- Proficiency in Ruby, Java, or Go, with experience working with relational and document databases
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Stripe
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet, providing payment processing and financial services software for businesses of all sizes. Millions of companies use its suite of products to accept online and in-person payments, manage revenue, and run operations globally.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $9.81B raised
- 2023-03-26Series I$6.5B
- 2023-04-01Grant$11.1M
- 2024-04-08Secondary Market$694M
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
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