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
Web Presence and Platform (WPP) is organized into two pillars,
each of which is grouped into pods that focus on the central tenets of Stripe's public mission. The Presence pillar creates
industry-leading designs for Stripe's front door surfaces, educates customers about the power of our platform, and drives our
business success. The Platform pillar builds the internal machinery that powers these surfaces, and is responsible for making our
websites fast, stable, and easy to modify.
WPP offers exciting opportunities to have a major impact on Stripe's success, as
stripe.com is often a user's first impression of the company, and the vast majority of signups come via the website. We'll apply
data-driven rigor to our curiosity, and we'll come up with clever ways to get insight into important questions. We'll have the
leeway to test out-of-the-box ideas alongside incremental ones. We'll apply Stripe's users-first mentality both internally and
externally, crafting tangible productivity and quality-of-life improvements for colleagues while maintaining and elevating the
quality of stripe.com.
What you'll do
As a software engineer, you'll design and build platforms and services that
are configurable and scalable around the globe. You'll partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on
infrastructure and platform systems and produce direct user-facing business impact.
Organizations is one of Stripe's
biggest bets. You'll join a team with an ambitious and exciting goal at an early stage, with several opportunities to solve
complex engineering problems at scale. If this sounds exciting, we'd love to speak with you.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and performant services and systems
- Work with a wide range of
systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
- Build and launch new capabilities
and products that bring significant value to customers
- Uphold our high engineering standards and elevate quality and
engineering efficiency within our many codebases and processes
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization
including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations
- Debug production issues across
services at multiple levels of the stack
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
- Strong technical background, including
3+ years of experience as a backend engineer, with an affinity for building scalable backend infrastructure
- Experience
delivering, extending, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
- Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset
in everything you build
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and
delight both internal and external users
- Ability to stitch together many different services even if you haven't worked
with them before
- Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones and good intuition for what is lasting and
scalable
- The skills to build holistically—from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and
measuring impact
- Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from colleagues at all levels
- Experience
mentoring and growing junior engineers as their technical leader
Preferred qualifications
- Fellow
engineers feel they are able to learn from you, and you care deeply about mentoring others
- Propensity to ask questions,
assume good intentions, and default to transparency
- You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers who join your
team
- You've worked to build pricing tooling that scales