Staff Software Engineer, Link - Bank Connections

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Link helps Stripe's merchants deliver frictionless and secure checkout experiences by auto-filling customers' payment information, letting customers check out in seconds and pay in one click across the Link merchant network. The Link Bank Connections team is responsible for the connectivity layer to financial institutions that enables Financial Connections to offer users seamless, reliable, and performant access to financial data.

What it asks for · 8

• 10+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience, with a track record of owning large, ambiguous systems end-to-end.
• Demonstrated technical experience leading the design and delivery of large, complex software projects from early definition through production launch.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, including experience building reliable backend services and polished user-facing product experiences.
• Experience leading and unblocking a group of engineers on a substantial project as a senior individual contributor.
• Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments: framing problems, making durable technical decisions, and creating an actionable path forward.
• Excellent cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration skills, with the ability to align teams with different systems, priorities, and constraints.
• Strong engineering judgment around system reliability, operational excellence, security, and maintainability.
• A product-minded approach to engineering, with a focus on delivering meaningful outcomes for users and the business.

Also a plus

• Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript. We care more about strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn than expertise in a particular language or framework.
• Experience building payments, money-movement, fintech, or other regulated financial products.
• Experience building consumer products at scale, particularly products that require a high degree of user trust.
• Experience working on 0→1 products or taking new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration.
• Familiarity with stablecoins, digital assets, or the infrastructure that enables global financial products.
• Appreciation for the importance of good documentation—internal and external—and taking pride in seeing projects through to successful completion

What the job covers

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for large, ambiguous Link initiatives that create new money-movement primitives.
• Own projects end to end: clarify the problem, define an incremental technical plan, align stakeholders, drive delivery, launch safely, and use results to guide further investment.
• Build robust, scalable backend services and high-quality consumer-facing experiences across Java, Ruby, and TypeScript.
• Lead a project team of engineers through execution, creating clarity on priorities, decisions, risks, and delivery milestones.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk, Infrastructure, and other Stripe teams to build capabilities that are safe, reliable, and useful.
• Navigate dependencies across Stripe’s payments and money-movement platforms, making thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, user experience, operational reliability, and durable technical foundations.
• Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, mentoring, and constructive feedback across the team.
• Help shape the team’s longer-term roadmap by identifying opportunities, technical risks, and investments needed to scale Link’s financial capabilities globally.

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Words the posting leans on

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• user6×
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