Head of Engineering, Identity Graph
Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (remote)full-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Leading the technical strategy for building a graph of identities and inferences at Stripe, managing a team of backend and machine learning developers, and shaping foundational infrastructure for new products in online business identity verification.
Responsibilities
- Work with engineers, product, and design to build new customer-facing APIs and products, maintaining and improving existing products.
- Coordinate with marketing and developer relations teams to explain products and prepare demos.
- Collaborate with other teams at Stripe on payment systems and infrastructure.
- Empower the engineering team to improve technical productivity and quality.
- Manage and develop a team of engineers offering stretch projects and feedback.
- Recruit a diverse team of top-tier engineers.
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as part of management.
Qualifications
- Experience working in large graph-based systems.
- Domain expertise in the fraud and/or financial risk space.
- Strong collaboration skills across engineering, operations, and data science.
- Autonomous work style with high responsibility.
- Proven record of managing engineering teams that ship effectively.
- Excellent recruiting skills with effective long-term hires.
Skills
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Last updated Mar 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Stripe
Economic infrastructure for the internet.
Launched out of Y Combinator’s 2009 Summer batch, Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online Stripe is a proud partner of YC companies—from Airbnb (S09) to Defog (W23)—to help them grow their businesses and increase the GDP of the internet.
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