# Staff Engineer - Service Platform

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

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## Description

## Job Summary

You will join Stripe as a Staff Engineer on the Service Platform team, leading a team of engineers and collaborating with infrastructure and product engineering organisations to advance service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption.

## Responsibilities

- Lead a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success.

- Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision.

- Understand user needs and pain points to prioritise engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user needs.

- Drive project execution, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.

- Work with high-visibility teams and stakeholders to support key engineering initiatives.

- Provide hands-on technical leadership for team members, including architecture, design, vision, direction, requirements setting, and incident response processes.

- Collaborate with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer-term vision of Stripe's services roadmap.

- Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team.

## Requirements

- 10+ years of technical experience or 7+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering.

- 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.

- Experience leading engineering teams working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries.

- Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers.

- Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.

- Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding.

- Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility.

- Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication.

- Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset.

- Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people.

- Proficient in at least one programming language (Java, Ruby, Python, Go).

## Preferred Qualifications

- Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences.

- Experience with various common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc.).

- Experience leading partially remote teams.

- Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering organisations.

- Experience building serverless platforms.

- Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on-call rotations.

## Skills

### Required
- API design
- abstractions
- frameworks
- client libraries
- infrastructure
- platform engineering
- leadership
- problem-solving
- critical thinking
- communication
- Java
- Ruby
- Python
- Go

### Nice to have
- written and verbal communication
- databases
- logging
- event streams
- metrics
- caching
- serverless platforms
- incident response

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