Android Engineer, Identity

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Before Stripe, every growing internet platform needed a payments team. Today, every growing internet platform needs a way to establish trust in its users.

What it asks for · 7

• 3+ years of professional software-development experience, including meaningful experience building and shipping mobile applications or SDKs.
• Experience developing for at least one major mobile platform using technologies such as Kotlin or Java for Android.
• Strong software-design fundamentals and experience creating maintainable APIs, components, or frameworks.
• Experience delivering mobile functionality beyond an isolated UI layer for example, integrating with APIs and services, handling local state, or working with device capabilities.
• Experience testing, debugging, monitoring, and improving mobile software in production.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, design, and other technical and non-technical partners.
• A demonstrated commitment to building high-quality user and developer experiences.

Also a plus

• Experience building mobile SDKs, shared libraries, or developer-facing APIs used outside your immediate team.
• Experience with both iOS and Android, or with cross-platform technologies such as React Native or Kotlin Multiplatform.
• Experience with camera, image-processing, document-capture, biometrics, or other device-integrated mobile experiences.
• Experience designing mobile software that handles sensitive data and applies security and privacy principles by default.
• Familiarity with accessibility, internationalization, mobile performance, and unreliable network conditions.
• Experience with mobile CI, automated testing, release automation, observability, or developer-productivity tooling.
• Experience contributing to backend APIs or services that support mobile products.
• Ability to simplify complex requirements and favor durable, scalable solutions.

What the job covers

• Design, build, and maintain Stripe Identity’s mobile SDKs and verification experiences across iOS, Android, and React Native.
• Create intuitive, polished experiences for complex flows such as identity-document and selfie capture, while accounting for accessibility, device capabilities, and varied real-world conditions.
• Build reliable and extensible SDK APIs and reusable components that make it easy for developers to integrate Stripe Identity into their applications.
• Work across mobile clients, supporting APIs, and services to deliver features end to end rather than treating the mobile application as an isolated layer.
• Improve SDK performance, reliability, observability, testing, release processes, and backward compatibility.
• Make thoughtful architectural decisions that balance user experience, developer experience, security, privacy, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, machine-learning engineers, backend engineers, user researchers, and other mobile teams.
• Work with Stripe users and field teams to understand integration challenges and turn their feedback into product and platform improvements.
• Help establish and evolve mobile-engineering practices across Identity and Stripe.
• Operate and maintain the systems and SDKs the team owns, including diagnosing production issues and improving them based on what we learn.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• experience26×
• mobile21×
• identity13×
• sdks11×
• user10×
• apis7×
• product7×
• platform6×
• requirements6×
• android5×
• build5×
• businesses5×
• developer5×
• trust5×
• building4×
• engineers4×

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