Description
Who we are
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.
About the team
The Revenue and Financial Automation team at Stripe builds software tools that accelerate the economic and technological growth of global businesses by helping them operationalize their commercial relationships with customers.
What you'll do
We're looking for engineers who want to build the distributed systems, APIs, and backend services that power Stripe's revenue and billing platform. You'll focus on API design and performance, service reliability, and distributed systems challenges, while collaborating across the stack to ship complete solutions for millions of businesses.
Responsibilities
- Scope, architect, and lead technical projects to build and scale distributed backend systems and APIs
- Design, build, and maintain reliable, high-performance APIs and backend services
- Own service reliability, including setting performance targets and driving improvements across the stack
- Debug production issues across distributed services and multiple levels of the stack
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, system performance, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Teach and mentor engineers to grow into the next generation of leaders at Stripe
- Partner with engineers and product managers across infrastructure and product teams to deliver well-integrated platform services
Who you are
Minimum requirements
- 5+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
- Strong coding skills in any programming language
- Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
- Direct project leadership and mentorship experience. Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Preferred qualifications
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures
- Experience with subscription management, usage-based billing, or financial reporting systems
- Interest in financial infrastructure and how businesses manage their revenue operations