Staff Engineer, Seller Systems
Stripe · Bengaluru, IN
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Who we areAbout StripeStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.About the teamThe Seller Systems team is dedicated to empowering sellers and stakeholders at Stripe by streamlining and optimizing the selling process. This is a top priority for Stripe as it expands its enterprise revenue globally. We build tools and systems to make the end-to-end selling process across initial contact with customers, deal modeling, negotiation, approvals, contracting, onboarding, and activation absolutely world class. We treat this area as an engineering problem from first principles, implemented with a hybrid architecture of first-party-developed custom Stripe components interoperating with third-party standard business components. Our vision is to be able to offer a single plane of glass experience to our Sellers at Stripe, to allow them to leverage AI through workflows that allow them to minimize overhead and increase their time on increasingly efficient selling.What you'll doAs a Staff Engineer in Seller Systems, you'll be a technical anchor for one of Stripe's highest-priority engineering investments—building the infrastructure that powers how Stripe sells to and wins customers globally. You'll own and drive multi-year technical strategy across a complex hybrid architecture of first-party Stripe systems and third-party platforms (including Salesforce), while directly shaping the seller experience across the full quote-to-cash lifecycle.You'll set the architectural direction and be a multiplier across teams—owning end-to-end technical decisions that span seller-facing workflows, core platform services, and integrations with Stripe's financial infrastructure.ResponsibilitiesArchitect and build scalable, reliable systems that underpin Stripe's sales motion, including APIs and services that support deal creation and modeling, multi-party approval workflows, contract generation, and merchant onboarding at global scaleLead Stripe's "single plane of glass" vision for sellers—driving architectural decisions on how first-party Stripe components and third-party platforms (e.g., Salesforce) interoperate, and designing systems that surface the right data and actions to sellers at the right timeIntegrate AI and agentic workflows into the selling process, identifying high-leverage opportunities to automate seller overhead—from intelligent deal recommendations and pricing guidance to automated contract workflows and proactive activation nudgesPartner cross-functionally at a senior level with Go-to-Market, Finance, Legal, and Product teams to deeply understand the selling process and translate business requirements into durable technical solutions that scale with Stripe's growthRaise the technical bar across the team—conduct thorough design and code reviews, establish engineering standards and best practices, and create the conditions for senior and staff-adjacent engineers to do their best workDrive simplification and platform consolidation—reduce complexity in Stripe's go-to-market systems stack, identify opportunities to consolidate overlapping tooling, and architect toward a maintainable, extensible platform that serves sellers reliablyMentor and sponsor senior engineers, helping them grow in technical scope and organizational influence, and fostering a culture of ownership, craft, and collaboration across the Seller Systems team and beyondWho you areWe're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.Minimum requirements10+ years experience building software systems, including both experience building user-facing products and internal platforms leveraged by other engineering teamsYou have a user-first mindsetYou care deeply about the product experience and the users who rely on the systems you buildYou've set a multi-year technical strategy for an organization and successfully executed itYou work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and have a curiosity to learn the domain to a deep levelYou've mentored senior engineers and meaningfully empowered their growthYou thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibilityYou have strong collaboration skills to work effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders, and ship complex initiativesYou communicate complex technical topics exceptionally clearlyPreferred qualificationsExperience working in high-growth teams similar to StripeKnowledge of CRM platforms like SalesforcePrevious experience partnering with or supporting Go-to-Market (GTM) organizations, including Sales, Marketing, or Customer Success teams
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