Stripe

Financial Services

StaffEngineer,Billing

$350–550k ~AI est. United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Staff Engineer, Billing at Stripe. Skills: Extensibility platform, Billing engine. Define technical architecture. Identify extension points”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

12+ years software engineering experience, Technical lead experience, Deep software architecture knowledge, Build alignment and drive initiatives

Nice to Have

Fintech, payments, or billing systems experience, Platform engineering experience, Domain-driven design experience, Experience building extensible systems

What You'll Do.

Define technical architecture

Identify extension points

Build extensible features

Own technical solutioning

Build resilient systems

Handle failures gracefully

Drive adoption of capabilities

Iterate based on usage

Collaborate with leadership

Define technical roadmap

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Billing domain teams; Extensibility platform teams; Billing leadership; Product managers

Communication Scope

Technical documentation; Written communication; Verbal communication

Full Job Description

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team In this role, you'll be joining a small, focused team with a large mandate: enabling businesses and Stripes to extend Stripe Billing exactly to their needs. Our users accomplish the vast majority of their goals with what Stripe Billing provides out of the box, but when they need to tailor billing logic to their unique business model, this team provides the tools and capabilities to do it. We are in the early stages of building an extensibility platform for Stripe Billing and are working toward general availability. Our work unlocks enterprise customers with complex, bespoke billing requirements — directly contributing to Stripe's mission of increasing the GDP of the internet. Our team brings extensibility to Stripe's Billing products, enabling merchants to customize billing logic — from discount calculations to invoicing workflows — through user-authored scripts and orchestration of Billing primitives We collaborate closely with Billing domain teams and Stripe's Extensibility platform teams to identify and build high-leverage extension points across the billing engine We have shipped at Stripe Sessions two years in a row — most recently launching five new extension capabilities along with script upload and observability tooling; you can explore our public docs at docs.stripe.com/extensibility What you'll do As a Staff Engineer on the team, you'll own the technical direction of our extensibility platform and play a central role in how we grow

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