Full Stack Engineer, Builder Experience

San Francisco · US-SF-HQ · 5+ years experience · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

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.

The Builder Experience Team at Stripe makes it easier for product teams to build the right products, ship with confidence, and help users realize value.
This is a hands-on role with broad product and technical scope, working across the stack by combining traditional software engineering with emerging AI capabilities.
You will operate in ambiguous problem spaces to identify high-friction parts of Stripe's product-development lifecycle, rapidly prototype new approaches, and scale successful experiments.

Design and build tools that help Stripe teams shape better products, ship with greater speed and confidence, and learn from users more quickly.
Develop AI-native workflows and agents that synthesize context, automate repetitive work, surface risks, and help builders make better decisions.
Own projects end to end: identify high-value problems, develop prototypes, test them with users, measure their impact, and scale the approaches that work.
Work across backend systems, data sources, internal platforms, and polished user-facing experiences.
Partner directly with product managers, engineers, designers, researchers, and cross-functional teams to understand how work happens in practice.
Integrate with platforms such as Kai and Compass while identifying where new foundational capabilities are needed.
Apply strong judgment to the use of sensitive internal context, including appropriate attention to security, privacy, permissions, and user trust.
Help define how the team operates, including its technical foundations, product-development practices, and standards for experimentation and quality.
Contribute to the team’s roadmap by identifying systemic sources of friction and opportunities to improve Stripe’s product-development lifecycle.

5+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience
Demonstrated technical experience leading the design and delivery of new product experiences from prototype to production
Strong full-stack engineering skills, including experience building reliable backend services and polished user-facing product experiences
Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments: framing problems, experimenting & adjusting, making right-sized technical decisions, and creating an actionable path forward
Excellent cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration skills, with the ability to align teams with different systems, priorities, and constraints
Strong engineering judgment around system reliability, operational excellence, security, and maintainability
A product-minded approach to engineering, with a focus on delivering meaningful outcomes for users and the business

Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript
Experience delivering user facing products at Stripe (Payments, MM, RevSuite, etc), or experience delivering user facing products pre-dating Stripe
Experience working on 0→1 products or taking new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration