Staff Engineer, Billing

About the role

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. This role is part of a small, focused team building extensibility for Stripe Billing, enabling businesses to tailor billing logic to their unique business models.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical architecture of Billing’s extensibility platform, setting patterns and standards that scale across teams
• Identify high-leverage extension points across Stripe's billing system and partner with Billing domain teams to build them into their products as extensible, first-class features
• Own end-to-end technical solutioning for complex, novel problems — from initial design through production delivery — in an evolving product environment
• Build resilient systems that handle failures gracefully, including novel failure modes introduced by user-authored logic running inside Stripe's billing engine
• Drive adoption of Billing's extension capabilities by external customers and internal Billing teams, iterating based on real-world usage
• Collaborate with Billing leadership, product managers, and Extensibility platform teams to define and execute the team's technical roadmap
• Mentor engineers on the team and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on collaboration

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of leading large, complex software projects that span multiple teams and organizations
• Experience as a technical lead on a team building external-facing products for customers
• Deep software architecture knowledge, including distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, and resilient system design
• Demonstrated ability to build alignment and drive large initiatives forward across organizational boundaries — without direct authority
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including producing clear technical documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences

Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, payments, or billing systems
• Platform engineering experience — building tools, abstractions, or frameworks for use by internal engineering teams
• Background in domain-driven design or building extensible systems (e.g., plugin architectures, programmable platforms, or scriptable workflows)
• Experience iterating on an early-stage product from initial adoption through growth, including hardening a system for production at scale

Benefits

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed on this page will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.