Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Job Description

Stripe, LLC. 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, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

Responsibilities

• Building and operating critical, large-scale systems that manage massive volumes of financial information, to fulfill business goals for Stripe and its partners;
• Navigate a complex fintech environment with numerous compliance regulations, translating internal and external business needs into robust software requirements and scalable distributed systems;
• Lead cross-functional alignment and provide technical direction for multi-team projects;
• Build large-scale (petabyte-size) financial data platforms, solutions, and pipelines using Big Data technologies and distributed systems;
• Debugging production issues across the stack, analyzing complex datasets and designing large-scale data pipelines using modern Big Data technologies to ensure reliable, high-performance solutions;
• Executing projects related to insights into Stripe’s financial performance across multiple Stripe products;
• Work on systems critical to Stripe's future financial operations, with impact over billions of dollars of payment volume;
• Deeply understand the design and architecture of modern payments and financial technology across countries;
• Leverage experience with monitoring, incident handling, debugging in production environments to ensure data pipeline health and SLOs, while reducing operational toil via automation.

Requirements

• Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Security, or a related field, plus five (5) years of related work experience in Software Engineering.
• Must also have experience in each of the following:
• 5 years of experience programming in Java, Scala, or Python;
• 5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable distributed systems;
• 5 years of experience debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack;
• 5 years of experience with different testing tools and frameworks including JUnit, Mockito, and TestNG;
• 4 years of experience developing complex SQL queries, analyzing datasets and designing large-scale data pipelines;
• 4 years of experience working in fintech domain;
• 4 years of experience leading cross-team projects and building alignment on multi-team technical direction;
• 1 year experience working with Apache Spark or similar modern Big Data technologies.

Salary and Benefits

• Salary: $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/yr.
• Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Work Arrangements

• 40 hrs/week
• 50% Telecommuting permitted.