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About the Role

Risk Engineering builds systems to protect Stripe from fraud, credit losses, and regulatory risk. Financial Crimes Engineering focuses on systems and controls for safe user onboarding, compliance with sanctions law, AML rules, and partner requirements. This role involves re-architecting the screening platform for new product launches, policy expression, and serving as a multi-tenant Risk Platform.

Responsibilities

Define technical strategy and vision for real-time entity matching, policy enforcement, and reviewer tooling.
Architect high-scale distributed screening engines and detection pipelines.
Build infrastructure for surfacing suspicious activity, collecting information, routing cases, and augmenting human judgment with AI.
Drive cross-functional technical alignment with Legal, Compliance, ML, and Product leaders.
Lead architectural evolution towards a multi-tenant screening platform for internal and external use.
Set engineering standards for system design, API consistency, and operational rigor; mentor engineers.
Ensure operational excellence, including system reliability, observability, and latency, and participate in on-call rotation.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role on core infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
Proven experience designing, building, and operating high-throughput, low-latency APIs and distributed backend systems at scale.
Track record of defining technical roadmaps and driving alignment across multiple engineering teams and cross-functional domains.
Hands-on technical depth, comfortable with high-level architecture down to code-level performance tuning and production debugging.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of articulating technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
Domain experience in financial crimes, sanctions screening, AML, entity resolution, or high-stakes trust & safety platforms.
Familiarity with applying LLMs or ML to operational workflows, or experience with fuzzy string matching and NLP for entity matching.
Experience building investigator/analyst tooling, case management systems, or human-in-the-loop review workflows.
Experience building platform products or APIs consumed by both internal engineering teams and external developers.
Prior experience leading 0-1 platform builds or major architectural modernizations.
Tech stack experience across multi-language environments (e.g., Primarily Ruby and Java) and modern data infrastructure.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making high-judgment engineering calls in a fast-moving regulatory environment.

Skills

Distributed systems
Platform engineering
API design
Backend systems
Technical strategy
Roadmap definition
System architecture
Performance tuning
Production debugging
Communication
Financial crimes
Sanctions screening
AML
Entity resolution
Trust & safety
LLMs
ML
Fuzzy string matching
NLP
Case management systems
Human-in-the-loop workflows
Platform products
Ruby
Java
Data infrastructure

Experience Level

Staff Engineer
10+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role

About the Company

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.
Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate business opportunities.
Stripe's mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.