About The Position
The Startup Products team builds Stripe Atlas and other products that help founders start and run companies from anywhere in the world. Its products support company formation, fundraising, legal agreements, access to tools, and operational automation, with the goal of helping more startups reach product-market fit faster. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will shape the team’s technical strategy and lead major 0-to-1 products from early exploration through launch and iteration. You will turn ambiguous opportunities into technical plans, align teams around those plans, and stay hands-on throughout execution. The work spans product surfaces, services, APIs, data models, and integrations with internal and external systems. You will partner with Product, Design, Legal, Data, Operations, founders, and engineering teams across Stripe to make complex workflows simple and trustworthy.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning large, ambiguous systems end-to-end.
- Demonstrated experience defining and delivering large, ambiguous software initiatives from early product and technical exploration through production launch.
- Strong full-stack engineering skills, including experience building reliable backend services and polished user-facing product experiences.
- Ability to create technical direction and align teams with different priorities and constraints without relying on direct authority.
- Product-minded engineering judgment and a deep commitment to understanding users and delivering meaningful outcomes for them and the business.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to move between strategic discussions and detailed technical decisions.
- A high quality bar and attention to detail across product experience, implementation, reliability, and operational readiness.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with early-stage startups and a deep understanding of the challenges founders face around the world.
- Experience building 0-to-1 products and taking them from concept through launch and iteration.
- Experience building products involving legal, financial, compliance, or other complex and high-trust workflows.
- Experience building AI-powered product experiences or platforms that safely automate consequential user tasks.
- Experience with Ruby and/or TypeScript; strong engineering fundamentals and ability to learn are valued over expertise in a particular language or framework.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive technical strategy across Startup Products, connecting near-term delivery to a cohesive, durable engineering vision.
- Lead large, ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives from problem definition and architecture through implementation, safe launch, and iteration.
- Design, build, and maintain polished user experiences, reliable backend services, APIs, and systems.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and foundational investments early, and create incremental plans that de-risk the roadmap and accelerate future work.
- Partner with engineering teams across Stripe, building alignment and influencing roadmaps and priorities when Startup Products depends on shared capabilities.
- Work directly with founders to understand their needs and translate complex legal, financial, and operational workflows into intuitive products.
- Raise the team’s engineering bar through clear standards, strong documentation, mentoring, and constructive technical feedback.
- Advise product and engineering leadership on emerging opportunities, technical constraints, and investments needed to support long-term ambitions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
