Staff Software Engineer, Link - Consumer Identity

Stripe • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Stripe is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Link’s Consumer Identity team to lead the design and delivery of new money-movement capabilities. The role turns ambiguous product opportunities into reliable, scalable, and intuitive experiences for consumers and merchants. It is a hands-on individual-contributor position with broad technical and organizational scope, owning large cross-functional projects from early product and technical definition through launch and iteration, and leading engineers through complex execution.

The engineer will work across the stack, building services and APIs as well as the user experiences that expose those capabilities. The work may involve modern financial infrastructure, including stablecoin-enabled capabilities, and requires sound judgment around safety, reliability, compliance, and user trust. The role includes making architectural decisions that enable Link’s balance model to scale globally and raising the team’s engineering bar.

Requirements

• 10+ 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, including aligning teams with different systems, priorities, and constraints.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript; strong engineering fundamentals and ability to learn are valued over 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 requiring a high degree of user trust.
• Experience working on 0→1 products or taking new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration.
• Familiarity with stablecoins, digital assets, or infrastructure that enables global financial products.
• Appreciation for good documentation, both internal and external, and seeing projects through to successful completion.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for large, ambiguous Link initiatives that create new money-movement primitives.
• Own projects end to end: clarify the problem, define an incremental technical plan, align stakeholders, drive delivery, launch safely, and use results to guide further investment.
• Build robust, scalable backend services and high-quality consumer-facing experiences across Java, Ruby, and TypeScript.
• Lead a project team of engineers through execution, creating clarity on 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, 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.

What This Job Offers

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