Description
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