Software Engineer, Finance Engineering

Who we are

About Stripe

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, 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.

About the team

The Finance Engineering team is at the core of Stripe to empower mission-critical financial domains including Accounting, Finance & Strategy, Tax, GTM and Treasury. Engineers on the Financial Engineering team build platforms, data pipelines, and financial products for the Finance team led by Stripe’s CFO. The use cases include financial analytics and insights, accounting automation, auditing, financial planning & forecasting, and financial business intelligence. We deal with big-data, process PBs of data daily with high availability and rigor and are the financial engine of the company. 

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain large-scale platforms, data pipelines, tooling and systems for the Finance team led by Stripe’s CFO, by leveraging front-end, back-end, data warehousing and batch processing technologies. Make direct business impact in some of Stripe’s most mission critical business domains including Accounting, Finance & Strategy, Treasury, GTM and Business Operations. 
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost.
• Build watertight controls across pipelines to ensure super high accuracy for all financial transactions (hundreds of billions of dollars). Ensure accurate, reliable, and timely financial reporting delivered to a single source-of-truth financial data warehouse
• Work in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts 
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
• Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture

Who you are

We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re passionate about solving business problems and making direct impact on customers, you are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems.

Minimum requirements

• 5+ years professional software development experience
• Experience designing and implementing solutions to large scale data problems
• Have delivered production systems of big scale
• Write high quality code. We work mostly in Scala, Java, Spark, Airflow, and Javascript. However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
• Are interested in solving different business problems at breadth for Stripe’s Finance team. 

Preferred qualifications

• Experiences with big-data technologies such as Spark, Presto, Kafka, and Flink, Google Big Query and OLAP preferred 

Note that It’s not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all of these areas. If you are a solid engineer and eager to work on financial related platforms/products, we are eager to talk to you.