Staff Backend Engineer, Stripe

• At least 8 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems
• Experience driving large projects across multiple teams to achieve critical business goals
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, micro-services, and event-driven architecture
• Proven track record of building scalable, high-availability systems
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about risk
• Experience mentoring senior engineers
• Thrive in a collaborative environment

Desirable

• Stripe builds the economic infrastructure for the internet. Building trust between banks, businesses & customers is a key ingredient for Stripe to be successful. Unfortunately, fraudsters & bad actors erode that trust
• The Fraud Decisions team builds decision systems to reduce fraud while retaining a best-in-class user experience. Our work directly impacts Stripe's bottom line, and we help build a safer financial backbone for the internet
• Design a scalable fraud decision platform with centralized backtesting, observability, experimentation, and exemption management
• Create smarter decision frameworks that, in addition to fraud predictions, account for future revenues and losses in every fraud decision
• Build a dynamic risk management layer that automatically adjusts risk parameters for cohorts of merchants in response to evolving threats and attacks - without human involvement
• You will have an outsized impact on the direction, design & implementation of the solutions to these problems
• Setting the technical direction and roadmap for the team to achieve business goals
• Building systems that evaluate businesses for various types of fraud, and take appropriate actions
• Proposing new decision policies and actions that directly reduce Stripe’s fraud losses
• Debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Helping engineers across the company to develop technologies for scaling our infrastructure