Staff Software Engineer, Issuing

About the role

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. The Issuing team owns the Stripe card issuing product end to end from the APIs and backend services that power spend cards, debit cards, and charge cards, to the dashboard and embedded components that businesses use to manage their card programs. You will define and drive the technical strategy for Issuing, including multi-year architecture decisions across backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces. You will own end-to-end technical solutions for critical systems, authorization flows, spending controls, cardholder management, and card program configuration, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and operationally sound. You will identify and lead infrastructure investments that unlock new issuing models, including geographic expansion, new card program types, and platform-level extensibility. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role at the intersection of financial infrastructure, developer-facing APIs, and end-user product experience, and it requires someone who can lead technically across a complex, fast-moving domain.

Key facts

What you'll do

Define and drive the technical strategy for Issuing, including multi-year architecture decisions across backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces.

Own end-to-end technical solutions for critical systems, authorization flows, spending controls, cardholder management, and card program configuration, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and operationally sound.

Identify and lead infrastructure investments that unlock new issuing models, including geographic expansion, new card categories such as stablecoin, healthcare, and consumer credit, and platform-level extensibility.

Collaborate closely with product managers, design, and cross-functional partners across Issuing, Authorization, Clearing and Settlement, and Balances to drive cross-cutting initiatives from design through launch.

Make principled build-vs-reuse decisions and produce clear technical roadmaps that balance near-term delivery with long-term platform health.

Advise engineering and product leadership on technical trade-offs and their downstream implications for the business and for regulatory constraints.

Drive engineering standards, tooling improvements, and operational rigor across the Issuing team to ensure consistent execution at scale.

Mentor and grow senior engineers, investing in their technical development and helping build the next generation of technical leaders on the team.

Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests with strict financial correctness.

Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack while mentoring engineers to help them grow their troubleshooting and system-design skills.

Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes to increase quality and velocity.

Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team environment, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues to keep execution aligned and transparent.

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 in production environments.

Experience leading cross-functional engineering projects end-to-end - from requirements through architecture, delivery, and post-launch iteration and measurement.

Strong API design instincts and the ability to build simple, developer-friendly interfaces over inherently complex financial and regulatory requirements while maintaining clarity and consistency.

Ability to influence technical direction and align stakeholders on a shared vision for the platform, even in the absence of direct authority, across engineering, product, and business teams.

Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, reliability, observability, and performance, and how these principles apply to high-volume financial transaction processing.

Strong ownership for reliability, operational rigor, and financial correctness, with experience implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices.

Experience mentoring engineers, conducting technical reviews, and fostering a culture of learning, growth, and craftsmanship within an agile, fast-paced environment.

Practical notes

Stripe is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status. We comply with applicable laws regarding equal employment opportunity and disability accommodation. If you require an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact careers@stripe.com. Reasonable accommodations will be provided where appropriate.

Work

location: Office

Hours: Full-time (40 hours per week)

Travel: None

Visa sponsorship: Not indicated

Application deadline: Not indicated

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