Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes

Навыки

Обязанности

• 01Define technical strategy & vision: Establish the multi-year architecture for Stripe's real-time entity matching infrastructure, policy enforcement engines, and reviewer tooling
• 02Architect high-scale systems: Design and optimize distributed screening engines and detection pipelines handling entity- and transaction-level requests at scale with strict SLA and uptime guarantees
• 03Build investigations infrastructure: Design the systems that surface suspicious activity, collect additional information from users, route cases to reviewers, and augment human judgment with AI to drive faster, more accurate case resolution
• 04Drive cross-functional technical alignment: Serve as the primary technical voice with Legal, Compliance, ML, and Product leaders to translate evolving global regulatory requirements into technical ones
• 05Enable Risk as a Service: Lead the architectural evolution toward a multi-tenant screening platform - laying the technical foundation for both internal product launches and external developer-facing APIs
• 06Raise the engineering bar: Set standards for system design, API consistency, and operational rigor across backend and ML-adjacent systems; mentor senior engineers and lead high-stakes design reviews
• 07Ensure operational excellence: Own system reliability, observability, and latency, ensuring production systems adapt quickly to sudden changes in global sanctions lists or traffic spikes, and participate in an on-call rotation for these systems

Требования

• 0110+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role on core infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering
• 02Proven experience designing, building, and operating high-throughput, low-latency APIs and distributed backend systems at scale
• 03Track record of defining technical roadmaps and driving alignment across multiple engineering teams and cross-functional domains
• 04Hands-on technical depth - comfortable jumping from high-level system architecture down to code-level performance tuning and production debugging
• 05Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of articulating technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders

Условия

• 01Participate in an on-call rotation for these systems