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Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes

Stripe · Toronto

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
71 days
Stripe's roles stay open a median of 80 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
3% of Stripe's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Stripe
high
615 stale, 52 reposted of 633 open
Hiring momentum
892 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-22

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Stripe's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Stripe.

About this role

As a Staff Engineer on Financial Crimes Engineering at Stripe, you will lead the technical direction for systems that manage fraud prevention and compliance. Your responsibilities will include designing high-scale screening and detection systems, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement regulatory requirements into software solutions. You will also mentor other engineers and set standards for system design and performance.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Stripe as an employer.

What you need

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role on core infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering
  • Proven experience designing, building, and operating high-throughput, low-latency APIs and distributed backend systems at scale
  • Track record of defining technical roadmaps and driving alignment across multiple engineering teams and cross-functional domains
  • Hands-on technical depth in system architecture and production debugging
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

  • Domain experience in financial crimes, sanctions screening, AML, entity resolution, or high-stakes trust & safety platforms
  • Familiarity with applying LLMs or ML to operational workflows
  • Experience building investigator/analyst tooling, case management systems, or human-in-the-loop review workflows
  • Experience building platform products or APIs consumed by both internal engineering teams and external developers
  • Prior experience leading 0-1 platform builds or major architectural modernizations from concept to production

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Role involves high-stakes decision-making in a regulatory environment
  • Expectations for mentoring and raising engineering standards may imply a significant leadership burden

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Listed by Stripe on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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