Software Engineer, Payments, Risk, & Premium Merchant Experiences

Stripe
Full-time•Full-stack•Dublin, Ireland
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At a glance

Employment type
Full-time
Workplace
On-site
Category
Full-stack

What you'll be doing

Stripe seeks software engineers in Dublin to build software services and platforms for payments, risk, and premium merchant experiences. You'll work across the stack, contribute to infrastructure design, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver APIs and user experiences for Stripe's global user base.

  • Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end
  • Work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and products
  • Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to codebases and processes
  • Build elegant APIs and user experiences for merchants
  • Contribute to the design and architecture of Stripe's next-generation infrastructure

Key requirements

Must-have

  • 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience (excluding internships or co-ops)
  • Ability to work effectively across the stack with different languages and tools
  • Comfortable shipping user-facing experiences and writing custom queries
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Ability to thrive with autonomy and responsibility
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks

Nice-to-have

  • Experience working in high-growth teams
  • Experience building financial systems or tools for financial experts

Experience: 2–12+ years industry software engineering experience (excluding internships or co-ops)

Role signals

Technical focus
full-stack
Architecture / system design
Indicated in the listing
Hands-on vs management
Hands-on

Full job description

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe 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 team

The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding Stripe's brand and financial stability. The Premium Merchant Experiences team helps businesses using Stripe succeed by providing high-quality, contextual, and timely premium support options. Our Dublin-based team is a startup within Stripe, building a greenfield product—offering both automated, AI-driven support and improved access to technical experts across Stripe.

Team matching—exact team matching for one of the subteams within this org will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc.

What you'll do

We're looking for software engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users, regardless of whether they're an end user, developer, or partner.

Responsibilities

  • Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end

  • Work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and products

  • Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you encounter

  • Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of Stripe

  • Contribute to the design and architecture of the next generation of Stripe's infrastructure, to meet the high-growth needs of our company and customers for years to come

Who you are

We'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 requirements

  • 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)

  • You work effectively across the stack from top to bottom, comfortably navigating codebases with different languages and tools

  • You're equally comfortable shipping user-facing experiences as you are writing custom queries to analyze experiment results

  • Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job, so our interview process is language-agnostic)

  • Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success

  • Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience working in high-growth teams similar to Stripe

  • Experience building financial systems or tools for financial experts

Interview prep pack

Grounded in this listing. Use it to prepare examples before you apply.

Your interview focus

Based on this listing, the Software Engineer role at Stripe in Dublin focuses on building and maintaining full-stack systems for payments, risk, and premium merchant experiences, with an emphasis on end-to-end problem ownership, collaboration, and high engineering standards.

  • Full-stack proficiency·High
  • End-to-end ownership·High
  • Collaboration·High
  • API and UX design·Medium

Only have 30 minutes?

Follow a focused preparation plan based on this job.

Start 30-minute prep

Your 30-minute plan

  1. Review Stripe's Product Offerings

    0–7 min

    Spend time understanding Stripe's payments, risk, and merchant support products to contextualize your experience.

  2. Prepare Full-Stack Project Examples

    7–15 min

    Select 1–2 projects that showcase your end-to-end ownership, API design, and user-facing work.

  3. Brush Up on Scalable System Design

    15–21 min

    Review key concepts and be ready to discuss your architectural contributions.

  4. Reflect on Cross-Functional Collaboration

    21–26 min

    Identify examples where you worked closely with designers or product managers and the impact of that collaboration.

  5. Draft Role-Specific Questions

    26–30 min

    Prepare thoughtful questions about team processes, technical challenges, and growth opportunities.

Likely questions

, 6 items

Priority reflects how strongly this topic is emphasised in the job listing, not whether it will be asked.

Talking points

, 5 items
  • End-to-End Problem Solving

    You will be expected to own and solve problems across a wide range of systems and technologies; prepare examples where you took initiative and delivered solutions from conception to deployment.

  • Full-Stack Proficiency

    The role requires comfort working across the stack and with different languages and tools; be ready to discuss projects where you navigated multiple codebases or technologies.

  • API and User Experience Design

    Building elegant APIs and user experiences is a core responsibility; prepare to explain your approach to designing robust APIs and intuitive user interfaces.

  • Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams

    You will work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers; have examples ready of effective teamwork and communication in multi-disciplinary settings.

  • Maintaining High Engineering Standards

    Stripe emphasizes consistency and quality; be prepared to discuss how you ensure code quality, reliability, and maintainability in your work.

What to research

, 4 items
  • Stripe's Product Ecosystem

    Review Stripe's core products, especially payments, risk management, and merchant support offerings.

  • API and Full-Stack Development Best Practices

    Brush up on designing, documenting, and testing APIs, as well as building user-facing features across the stack.

  • Collaboration in Cross-Functional Teams

    Prepare examples of working with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver features.

  • Scalable System Design

    Review principles and patterns for designing scalable, reliable infrastructure.

Questions to ask

, 6 items
  1. How does the team balance building new features with maintaining high engineering standards across multiple codebases?

    Why ask this? To understand the team's approach to quality and technical debt.

  2. What are the biggest technical challenges currently facing the Payments, Risk, or Premium Merchant Experiences teams?

    Why ask this? To gain insight into the team's priorities and where you could add value.

  3. How does Stripe support engineers in learning new technologies or working across unfamiliar stacks?

    Why ask this? To assess opportunities for growth and support as a generalist.

  4. Can you describe the typical collaboration process between engineers, designers, and product managers on this team?

    Why ask this? To understand cross-functional workflows and expectations.

  5. What does success look like for someone in this role after the first 6–12 months?

    Why ask this? To clarify performance expectations and growth opportunities.

  6. How does the team approach designing APIs and user experiences for both internal and external users?

    Why ask this? To learn about design philosophies and user focus.

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