Stripe

Staff Engineer, Risk and Compliance

Stripe

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Illinois, New York, Washington

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

ApacheGraphQLMongoDBReactRuby

About the role

  • Play a critical role in transforming risk management and compliance experiences for Connect platforms at Stripe.
  • Lead the technical strategy for building resilient and scalable systems that empower platforms to seamlessly manage their financial business obligations.
  • Drive the design and development of robust systems that provide proactive risk management solutions, enabling platforms to understand, act on, and manage risk issues effectively.
  • Write code that solves for our most complex problems and bring deep systems expertise and lessons learned from fixing incidents.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams within Connect, Risk, and Radar to build features that address the diverse needs of global platforms, focusing on risk and compliance requirements.
  • Lead efforts to reduce platform degradation and support contact rates by architecting systems that provide clear, actionable insights and paved roads for platforms and their connected accounts.
  • Act as a subject matter expert in platform risk management, evaluating, refining, and implementing technical strategies to align with north star experience goals.
  • Advocate for transparent, configurable protections, ensuring platforms have the tools and visibility needed to reduce fraudulent activity and maintain compliance.
  • Engage with stakeholders, including legal and financial partners, to ensure risk systems meet operational, regulatory, and business model requirements of Connect users.
  • Mentor and guide engineers within the team, amplifying their impact through effective code reviews, technical mentoring, and strategic direction.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on software development experience, with a focus on building and maintaining data-driven applications, along with a proven track record of delivering large, complex projects on time.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence cross-functional teams, driving clarity and alignment on project goals while ensuring successful delivery of high-quality software.
  • Proficient in developing production-grade backend applications and maintaining frontend systems with integrated APIs, along with experience in various data storage solutions.
  • Experience in navigating and resolving ambiguous problems, applying creative and analytical thinking to find solutions that align with business objectives and user needs.
  • Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts and technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, while influencing key stakeholders.
  • Experience working with inside Risk, Compliance, PaaS domains
  • Expertise building web applications using modern frontend frameworks such as React.
  • Proven experience building and optimizing GraphQL APIs. Ruby development is a plus.
  • Experience working with large-scale data systems such as Presto/Trino, MongoDB and Apache Pinot.