Full-stack engineer building Stripe Link's global consumer payments experience end to end

Stripe is hiring a full stack engineer for Link, its digital wallet product, to work across the entire stack — from front-end payment experiences to low-latency infrastructure to fraud-protection systems. The role expects 2–10+ years of experience, strong generalist coding ability, and comfort operating with high autonomy across a distributed, cross-functional engineering org.

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What this interview tests

Full-stack generalist engineering across frontend, backend, and infra
Debugging production issues across multiple layers of the stack
Autonomy and ownership in an ambiguous, fast-growing team
Mentoring and raising the engineering bar for peers
Scalable, secure system design for consumer payment experiences

Common question themes

Coding exercise in your strongest language testing core CS fundamentals

Debugging a critical production issue spanning multiple stack layers

Designing or extending a feature for a high-scale consumer payments product

Working with high autonomy — a time you drove a project without explicit direction

Mentoring a less experienced engineer

Collaborating across distributed/hybrid teams and cross-functional stakeholders

How candidates describe it

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