Staff Engineer, Payments

Stripe
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Technical ownership","Mentoring","Customer empathy"]

Lead the technical direction for Stripe’s next generation of payment offerings in India. Build and evolve low-latency, distributed systems that initiate, route, and complete payments, while ensuring transactional correctness, idempotency, and safe zero-downtime migrations. Partner globally across the payments stack and cross-functional teams to automate reconciliation and settlement, improve operational excellence, and mentor engineers through design, reviews, testing, and incidents.

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Staff Engineer, Payments

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Job Summary

Lead the technical direction for Stripe’s next generation of payment offerings in India. Build and evolve low-latency, distributed systems that initiate, route, and complete payments, while ensuring transactional correctness, idempotency, and safe zero-downtime migrations. Partner globally across the payments stack and cross-functional teams to automate reconciliation and settlement, improve operational excellence, and mentor engineers through design, reviews, testing, and incidents.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate secure, reliable, extensible production systems.
  • •Drive complex initiatives from concept to launch with architectural trade-offs and successful delivery.
  • •Set a high technical bar through hands-on coding, design/code reviews, testing, and maintainable system design.
  • •Partner across teams and external partners to navigate regulatory/operational complexity and unblock execution.
  • •Own operational excellence via incident response and continuous improvement; improve standards, tooling, and processes; mentor engineers.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • •Drive architectural vision for complex, multi-team initiatives with deep expertise in system design, databases, and API development.
  • •Demonstrate end-to-end technical ownership from concept through delivery, influencing technical and product roadmaps.
  • •Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain complex concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • •A collaborative mindset, applying a customer-centric lens to problem-solving.
Experience:10+ yearsPaymentsFinancial technology
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationTechnical ownershipMentoringCustomer empathy
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RubyJavaGoAPI developmentDatabasesRelational databasesDocument databases

Company Brief

Stripe
Provides payment processing APIs and financial infrastructure for internet businesses. Powers online payments for millions of companies from startups to Fortune 500s.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2010
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