Stripe
About this role
Stripe is the payments infrastructure millions of businesses run on, and the Seller Systems team builds the tooling behind how Stripe itself sells: initial contact, deal modelling, negotiation, approvals, contracting, onboarding and activation. The posting calls this one of Stripe's highest priority engineering investments as it expands enterprise revenue globally. As a staff engineer you would be the technical anchor, owning multi year technical strategy across a hybrid architecture where first party Stripe components interoperate with third party platforms including Salesforce. The work includes architecting APIs and services for deal creation, multi party approval workflows, contract generation and merchant onboarding at global scale, and integrating AI and agentic workflows into the selling process. There is an explicit simplification brief too: reducing complexity in the go to market systems stack and consolidating overlapping tooling. It is a senior individual contributor role with mentoring attached, not a management one.
Who this is for
What the posting requires as minimum:
- 10+ years of experience building software systems, including both user facing products and internal platforms.
The preferred qualifications are described by Stripe as a bonus rather than a requirement, and it says explicitly that if you meet the minimum requirements you are encouraged to apply.
What the work actually looks like:
- Architect and build scalable, reliable systems underpinning Stripe's sales motion, including APIs and services for deal creation and modelling, multi party approval workflows, contract generation and merchant onboarding at global scale.
- Lead the single plane of glass vision for sellers, driving architectural decisions on how first party Stripe components and third party platforms such as Salesforce interoperate, and designing systems that surface the right data and actions at the right time.
- Integrate AI and agentic workflows into the selling process, from intelligent deal recommendations and pricing guidance to automated contract workflows and proactive activation nudges.
- Partner at a senior level with go to market, finance, legal and product teams, translating business requirements into durable technical solutions.
- Raise the technical bar through design and code reviews, and establish engineering standards and best practice.
- Drive simplification and platform consolidation, reducing complexity in the go to market systems stack and architecting toward a maintainable, extensible platform.
- Mentor and sponsor senior engineers, helping them grow in technical scope and organisational influence.
How the team describes its own approach: it treats the selling process as an engineering problem from first principles, implemented as a hybrid architecture of first party custom Stripe components interoperating with third party standard business components.
Location and working pattern: Bengaluru, India. Office days are not stated in the posting.
Honest fit guidance: internal systems at Stripe still run at payments scale, so do not read internal as small. The specific thing that will distinguish an application is experience owning architecture across a boundary between custom systems and large third party platforms, because that hybrid is the core problem the team exists to solve. Ten years is a real bar here rather than a rounded up preference.
- 10+ years of experience building software systems, including both user facing products and internal platforms.
The preferred qualifications are described by Stripe as a bonus rather than a requirement, and it says explicitly that if you meet the minimum requirements you are encouraged to apply.
What the work actually looks like:
- Architect and build scalable, reliable systems underpinning Stripe's sales motion, including APIs and services for deal creation and modelling, multi party approval workflows, contract generation and merchant onboarding at global scale.
- Lead the single plane of glass vision for sellers, driving architectural decisions on how first party Stripe components and third party platforms such as Salesforce interoperate, and designing systems that surface the right data and actions at the right time.
- Integrate AI and agentic workflows into the selling process, from intelligent deal recommendations and pricing guidance to automated contract workflows and proactive activation nudges.
- Partner at a senior level with go to market, finance, legal and product teams, translating business requirements into durable technical solutions.
- Raise the technical bar through design and code reviews, and establish engineering standards and best practice.
- Drive simplification and platform consolidation, reducing complexity in the go to market systems stack and architecting toward a maintainable, extensible platform.
- Mentor and sponsor senior engineers, helping them grow in technical scope and organisational influence.
How the team describes its own approach: it treats the selling process as an engineering problem from first principles, implemented as a hybrid architecture of first party custom Stripe components interoperating with third party standard business components.
Location and working pattern: Bengaluru, India. Office days are not stated in the posting.
Honest fit guidance: internal systems at Stripe still run at payments scale, so do not read internal as small. The specific thing that will distinguish an application is experience owning architecture across a boundary between custom systems and large third party platforms, because that hybrid is the core problem the team exists to solve. Ten years is a real bar here rather than a rounded up preference.
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