Hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Issuing Company: Stripe Location: Seattle, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 21:08:47 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, Embedded Systems, Event-Driven, Stripe, Systems Design About the job Experience: •10+ years of industry software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact at a staff or equivalent scope (leading initiatives across multiple teams or systems). Required Skills: •Define and drive the technical strategy for Issuing, including multi-year architecture decisions across backend services, APIs, and user-facing surfaces. •Own end-to-end technical solutions for critical systems, authorization flows, spending controls, cardholder management, and card program configuration, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and operationally sound. •Identify and lead infrastructure investments that unlock new issuing models, including geographic expansion, new card program types, and platform-level extensibility. •Collaborate closely with product managers, design, and cross-functional partners across Issuing, Authorization, Clearing and Settlement, and Balances to drive cross-cutting initiatives from design through launch. •Make principled build-vs-reuse decisions and produce clear technical roadmaps that balance near-term delivery with long-term platform health. •Advise engineering and product leadership on technical trade-offs and their downstream implications for the business. •Drive engineering standards, tooling improvements, and operational rigor across the team. •Mentor and grow senior engineers, investing in their technical development and helping build the next generation of technical leaders on the team. Qualifications: •Proven track record designing and shipping large-scale user-facing products with distributed backend systems that are both highly available and financially correct. •Strong API design instincts and the ability to build simple, developer-friendly interfaces over inherently complex financial and regulatory requirements. •Demonstrated capacity to influence technical direction and align multiple teams without direct authority, with excellent written and verbal communication across engineers, product, and leadership. •High ownership mindset—comfortable with ambiguity, able to define the problem and the plan, not just execute a predefined spec. •Clear, precise communication on complex technical topics for both technical and non-technical audiences. •Operational familiarity with card network protocols, BIN sponsorship models, or issuing bank integrations (Visa, Mastercard, or equivalent). •Background in embedded finance, card-as-a-service, or Banking-as-a-Service platforms. Experience with high-volume event-driven architectures and the reliability and consistency tradeoffs they introduce. •Track record of mentoring senior engineers and contributing meaningfully to engineering hiring and culture. Compensation: •$224,000 - $336,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!