Modeled career paths · Payments engineering

Where does a Staff Payments Engineer go next?

What employers are asking a Staff Payments Engineer for, what they pay, and where people go next. From live postings and Startline’s modeled career map: what the ads say, never estimated.

Typical advancement

Director of Payments Engineering+43% typical comp change · ~3.0y typical

84% of modeled moves out of Staff Payments Engineer go here

executive stepno modeled onward moves above the evidence floor

Specialist path

Director of Trust & Safety+23% typical comp change · ~7.0y typical

reachable via Policy Lead, Trust & Safety. 4% joint modeled share

executive stepno modeled onward moves above the evidence floor

Higher-growth opportunity

Director of Risk & Fraud+43% typical comp change · ~7.0y typical

reachable via Fraud Strategy Lead. 4% joint modeled share

executive stepno modeled onward moves above the evidence floor

Chief Information Officer+49% typical comp change · ~7.0y typical

reachable via Director of IT. 2% joint modeled share

executive stepno modeled onward moves above the evidence floor

Adjacent career

Fraud Strategy Lead+0% typical comp change · ~4.0y typical

4% of modeled moves out of Staff Payments Engineer go here

lateral84% of modeled exits move upward from there

Policy Lead, Trust & Safety-14% typical comp change · ~4.0y typical

4% of modeled moves out of Staff Payments Engineer go here

lateral84% of modeled exits move upward from there

Director of IT-32% typical comp change · ~4.0y typical

4% of modeled moves out of Staff Payments Engineer go here

lateral64% of modeled exits move upward from there

What this page cannot know is which of these fit you. That is what the free list is for.