Description
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.
The Revenue & Financial Management group at Stripe is building new products that expand the scope of problems we tackle beyond payments into Revenue Management, Financial Operations and analytics. These solutions are going to be key pillars for Stripe’s growing SaaS business and a major revenue stream.
We’re looking for a Staff Engineer that will help architect and design this system from ground up. You will need to set the technical direction across a variety of projects and initiatives while also mentoring and growing others on the team.
Responsibilities:
- Scope and lead large technical projects that are the foundational pillars for Financial Data Management Infrastructure
- Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices made in building these products
- Directly contribute to core interface design and write code
- Arbitrate critical decisions correctly considering software best practices, Stripe system realities, and stakeholder preferences
- Advise Stripe’s leadership team on key technical considerations related to the future of financial data management
- Work effectively cross-functionally and teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
Minimum requirements:
- Strong technical background with 12+ years of experience in system architecture and designing distributed systems handling large amounts of data
- Experience as a Staff, Principal, or Distinguished Engineer
- Deep experience building custom solutions using big data and streaming technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Iceberg, and Airflow
- Hands-on experience building modern microservices architecture-based products
- Served as the technical lead for a team of engineers and demonstrated broad technical leadership
- Owned the technical roadmap for a business area
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred qualifications:
- Domain expertise in accounting or financial management is a plus