Who we are About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for
businesses. Millions of companies - from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept
payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and
we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within
everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Revenue
and Financial Automation Sub-org within Revenue and Financial Automation: Billing.
The Revenue and Financial Automation
team at Stripe builds software tools that accelerate the economic and technological growth of global businesses by helping them
operationalize their commercial relationships with customers. Our offerings include a billing platform, SaaS analytics, data
services, and finance automation products that our customers creatively combine to support various revenue models.
Team
Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for
different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.
What you'll do
We're looking for engineers who want to build the distributed systems, APIs, and backend
services that power Stripe's revenue and billing platform. You'll focus on API design and performance, service reliability, and
distributed systems challenges, while collaborating across the stack to ship complete solutions for millions of businesses.
Responsibilities
- Scope, architect, and lead technical projects to build and scale
distributed backend systems and APIs
- Design, build, and maintain reliable, high-performance APIs and backend
services
- Own service reliability, including setting performance targets and driving improvements across the stack
- Debug production issues across distributed services and multiple levels of the stack
- Make effective tradeoffs that
consider business priorities, system performance, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Teach and mentor engineers to
grow into the next generation of leaders at Stripe
- Partner with engineers and product managers across infrastructure and
product teams to deliver well-integrated platform services
Who you are
We're looking for
someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to
apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 5+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
- Strong coding
skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language
agnostic)
- Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers'
success
- Direct project leadership and mentorship experience. Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and
responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and
stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Preferred
qualifications
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures
- Experience with subscription management,
usage-based billing, or financial reporting systems
- Interest in financial infrastructure and how businesses manage their
revenue operations