Software Engineer, Internal Systems

Job Overview

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Internal Systems team. You will play a key role in extending our balance management platform and building out a new funds accessibility platform used by enterprises and SMBs. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance APIs and services
• Ensure our infrastructure is extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets SLAs for both external and internal users
• Hide complexity from users behind simple yet powerful abstractions
• Partner with engineers, analysts, and scientists to build highly scalable systems and deliver delightful developer experiences
• Build APIs that power internal stakeholder-facing UI experiences
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Requirements

• 7-12 years of experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, high-performance APIs and services
• Experience implementing server-side APIs in dynamic languages like Ruby
• Experience working with document and relational datastores, especially Mongo and MySQL
• Enjoy spelunking through new datasets, especially in systems like Redshift or Presto/Trino
• Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset
• Experience proactively seeking feedback from users, teammates, and subject matter experts
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
• Knowledge of cloud-based services like gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud services such as AWS
• Experience in the marketing domain building products that contribute to the marketing tech stack
• Experience with machine learning, recommender systems, product-led growth, and/or lifecycle marketing
• Prior experience building distributed systems or a microservices architecture