Staff Software Engineer, Radar

Stripe • Seattle, WA

4d

About The Position

As a software engineer on Stripe Radar, you’ll build products and infrastructure that help businesses understand and stop fraud and abuse. The work spans backend services, enterprise APIs, and user experiences that provide customers with sophisticated prevention capabilities.

You’ll own problems from investigation through launch, partnering with product managers, designers, and data scientists. The role offers opportunities to scale systems that make real-time decisions across Stripe’s global payments network, bring advances in ML and AI into production, and build new products from scratch. Improvements can directly affect the revenue users retain and the legitimate customers they serve.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience, with a track record of owning large, ambiguous systems end to end.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language and experience building and maintaining production software.
• Demonstrated technical experience leading the design and delivery of large, complex software projects from early definition through production launch.
• Experience leading and unblocking a group of engineers on a substantial project as a senior individual contributor.
• Significant hands-on coding as a senior IC leader in the last year.
• Ability to work across systems and technologies, learn unfamiliar codebases, and make thoughtful technical trade-offs.
• 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, including aligning teams with different systems, priorities, and constraints.
• Understanding of basic data science concepts, such as linear models, precision, and recall.
• Experience building consumer products at scale, particularly products that require a high degree of user trust.
• Experience working closely with fast customers, including leading upsell calls.

Nice To Haves

• Track record of working closely with data science and ML teams to ship products to users.
• Experience working on 0→1 products or taking new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration.
• Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript; strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn matter more than expertise in a particular language or framework.
• Experience building payments, money-movement, fintech, or other regulated financial products.
• Experience building consumer products at scale, particularly products that require a high degree of user trust.
• Familiarity with stablecoins, digital assets, or the infrastructure that enables global financial products.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate reliable, low-latency services that detect and prevent fraud and abuse at scale.
• Design APIs and dashboard experiences that help businesses investigate threats, configure defenses, and understand how Radar protects them.
• Develop shared platform and infrastructure that enable teams to build and launch new Radar capabilities.
• Work directly with users to understand emerging threats and turn those insights into broadly useful products.
• Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to bring new signals, models, and AI capabilities into production.
• Own projects end to end, from technical design and implementation through rollout, measurement, and iteration.
• Uphold a high bar for engineering quality, reliability, and product craft while moving quickly as threats evolve.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed