# Staff Engineer, Account Engineering

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: NYC, SEA
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced technical leader to define and drive the evolution of our organization's technical and product vision as a Staff Engineer, Account Engineering at Stripe. You will operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and strategy, helping the organization navigate the technical trade-offs inherent in building a global-scale product platform.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and scale applications with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and usability.

- Define and design opinionated architectural strategies for improving the extensibility of our platform.

- Diagnose and identify sustainable solutions to nebulous performance challenges.

- Build high-quality end-to-end product experiences, demonstrating deep care for users' needs and serving as a steward of crafting great experiences.

- Collaborate nimbly with cross-functional partners (Product Managers), high-visibility teams, and their stakeholders to support their key initiatives.

- Partner with Engineering Management, Product Managers, and key leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer-term vision.

- Unblock the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps, making effective trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.

- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

- Teach and mentor other team members to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe.

## Requirements

- 10+ years of experience building software systems, including both experience building user-facing products and internal platforms leveraged by other engineering teams.

- A user-first mindset; you care deeply about the product experience and the users who rely on the systems you build.

- Experience setting a multi-year technical strategy for an organization and successfully executing it.

- Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and a curiosity to learn the domain to a deep level.

- Experience mentoring senior engineers and meaningfully empowering their growth.

- Strong collaboration skills to work effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders and ship complex initiatives.

- Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical topics clearly.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- technical leadership
- architecture
- scalability
- usability
- collaboration
- communication

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