High School Internship, Software Engineering (Summer 2027)

This is a 12-week internship for exceptional high school students and recent graduates to work on a scoped engineering project in Stripe's San Francisco or Seattle office.

You will own a problem end-to-end, contribute to Stripe's codebase, and learn how engineers build reliable systems used by millions of businesses.

Responsibilities:

• Participate fully in the team you join, including team discussions, decisions, and the technical design process.
• Write, test, and document software intended for production use by Stripe teams and users.
• Give and receive technical feedback through code reviews and design discussions.
• Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners to seek and incorporate feedback.
• Learn unfamiliar systems through independent research and close work with your manager, mentor, teammates, and subject matter experts.
• Communicate the status of your work clearly, including progress, risks, open questions, and where you need help.
• Use current AI development tools thoughtfully while applying rigorous judgment to review, refine, test, and validate outputs.

What We Look For:

• Ambitious builder: You are energized by building solutions without a clear precedent and working through difficult technical problems.
• Rigorous thinker: You care about whether your work is correct, not just whether it runs.
• Adaptable problem solver: You learn quickly, respond well to feedback, and keep making progress when the path is unclear.
• Collaborative teammate: You communicate clearly, treat others with kindness, and know when to work independently and when to ask for help.

Minimum requirements:

• Currently enrolled in high school, or graduating from high school before the internship begins.
• Available to work full-time and in person from Stripe's San Francisco or Seattle office for 12 consecutive weeks during a mutually agreed period between May and August 2027.
• Experience programming through independent projects, research, coursework, competitions, open source contributions, a startup, or another setting.
• Evidence of exceptional technical achievement for your stage.
• Ability to explain your individual contribution to the work you submit.
• Experience working with others on a technical project and incorporating feedback from peers, mentors, teachers, users, or collaborators.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Preferred qualifications:

• One or more areas of deeper technical knowledge, such as frontend, backend, infrastructure, data, machine learning, security, or developer tools.
• Experience writing high-quality pull requests, tests, technical documentation, or design notes.
• Familiarity navigating an unfamiliar codebase or contributing to a multi-person project.
• A record of sustained technical work over time.
• Curiosity about how businesses operate and how software can improve the conditions for economic growth.

What to submit:

• A resume or short summary of your technical experience.
• In that summary please include one or two examples of your strongest work.
• For each example, a short explanation of the problem, what you personally contributed, the hardest technical decision, how you tested the work, and what you learned.