Full Stack Engineer, Web Presence and Platform

Job Overview

As a Full Stack Engineer, Web Presence and Platform at Stripe, you will design and build platforms and services that are configurable and scalable around the globe. You will partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on infrastructure/platform systems, as well as produce direct user-facing business impact.

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 high engineering standards, and elevate quality and engineering efficiency within 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

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 together, even if you have not worked with them before
• Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and having a 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 defaulting to transparency
• You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team
• You've worked to build pricing tooling that scales