Software Engineer

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.

What you’ll do

Take part in building core commercial infrastructure for the world. We have roles open in a broad range of products and services.

Responsibilities

• Own problems from end to end, managing complexity and engaging directly with stakeholders to think through everything from business impact, to reliability and operability
• Contribute to the product roadmap, help set the vision and strategy for the team, act as a sounding board for team leadership 
• Uphold Stripe’s high standards for engineering and product quality and mentor newer team members to do the same
• Work with stakeholders across Stripe to balance and accommodate competing desires

Who you are

Stripe is, at its heart, an engineering company. To provide a missing pillar of core internet infrastructure, we hire people with a broad set of technical skills (and from a wide variety of backgrounds) who are ready to take on some of the most challenging problems in the industry. We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• Have a strong technical background, including 3+ years of experience with software engineering
• Enjoy being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally
• Write high quality code that is tested thoroughly, supported by clear documentation and has appropriate production observability
• Be familiar with the full life cycle of software development, from design and implementation to testing and deployment
• You are empathetic with users, both internal and external, and strive to create a better experience for all customers
• Proven ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if you have not worked with them before
• Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design

Preferred qualifications

• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby, Java, Python, or Go; language can be learned and we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
• Knowledge of distributed systems patterns and principles