Remote Staff Backend Engineer, Fraud Decisions

Summary

Join Stripe's Fraud Decisions team to design and build scalable fraud decision platforms, create smarter decision frameworks, and have an outsized impact on the direction of solutions. As a technical lead, you will set the technical direction and roadmap for the team, building systems that evaluate businesses for various types of fraud.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems
• Experience driving large projects across multiple teams to achieve critical business goals
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, micro-services, and event-driven architecture
• Proven track record of building scalable, high-availability systems
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about risk
• Experience mentoring senior engineers
• Thrive in a collaborative environment

Responsibilities

• Setting the technical direction and roadmap for the team to achieve business goals
• Building systems that evaluate businesses for various types of fraud, and take appropriate actions
• Proposing new decision policies and actions that directly reduce Stripe’s fraud losses
• Debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Helping engineers across the company to develop technologies for scaling our infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous tech lead for a team, org, or large effort
• Experience collaborating with ML teams
• Experience with Java or Ruby
• Experience with Spark