Lead financial crimes engineering at Stripe in Toronto, designing distributed systems and policy engines for screening, detection, and review workflows.
As a Staff Engineer, you will set technical direction across Financial Crimes Engineering. You will shape real-time entity matching, compliance controls, and investigator tooling. The work spans distributed systems, policy logic, AI-augmented workflows, and regulatory translation with Legal, Compliance, ML, and Product.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define architecture for entity matching and policy enforcement systems
- Design high-scale screening engines and detection pipelines
- Build investigations infrastructure supporting reviewers and AI augmentation
- Translate global regulations into technical requirements
- Mentor engineers and lead high-stakes design reviews
Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years in strategic technical leadership roles
- Experience operating low-latency distributed backend systems
- Ability to tune performance and debug production systems
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Shape Stripe’s financial crimes platform through distributed systems, policy engineering, and investigator-focused technical leadership.