HEAD OF ENGINEERING, IDENTITY GRAPH

Company: Stripe
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 27, 2024

Job Description:

Before Stripe, every growing internet platform had a payments team. Today, every growing internet platform has an Identity team. Identity verification is a core piece of economic infrastructure for online businesses. But, beyond verification, Identity has quickly become the bedrock of successful internet businesses allowing a deep understanding of customers.We're looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead our technical strategy in building a graph of identities and inferences that enriches Stripe's product portfolio by knowing our users deeply and enhances the user experience that enables users to establish trust, accelerate globalization, and open up new market opportunities quickly with just a few lines of code. You'll manage and grow a strong team of backend and machine learning developers, build relationships with customers and other teams at Stripe, and work on something trajectory altering for Stripe.This is a unique opportunity to shape a foundational infrastructure to power entirely new products that will be used by the next generation of ambitious online businesses.You will:Work with engineers, product, and design to build new customer-facing APIs and products, while maintaining the quality and improving the experience of existing productsWork with marketing and developer relations teams to explain our products by preparing demos for user-facing eventsCoordinate with other teams at Stripe, both on the problem domain of how payment systems really work and on our shared infrastructureEmpower the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical productivity and qualityManage an excellent team of engineers, helping to develop their careers with stretch projects and excellent feedbackRecruit a diverse team of engineers that are amongst the best in the industry, from outreach to closingContribute to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management teamWe're looking for someone who has:Experience working in large graph-based systemsDomain expertise in the fraud and/or financial risk spaceAn excitement for collaborating with teammates across engineering, operations, and data scienceThe ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibilityExperience managing engineering teams with a strong record of shippingStrong recruiting skills, with a track record of hiring new team members who are extremely effective over the long term

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