Software Engineer, Stripe
Developer Experience & Product Platform
CA$134.4-258k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$134.4-258k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for backend, frontend leaning fullstack, and fullstack engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users, regardless of whether they’re an end user, developer, or partner
- 2+ years of industry backend, frontend, or fullstack engineering experience building end-to-end user solutions (does not include internships or co-ops)
- Strong coding skills in any programming language. We understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic
- Experience debugging complex problems across the whole stack
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving engineers, designers, and others to identify high-impact ways of solving problems quickly
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
- Excellent oral and written communication
What the job involves
- Stripe’s Developer Experience & Product Platform (DEeP) organization empowers all of Stripe's products with a shared product platform that helps with rapidly delivering high-quality, cross-product experiences across our UI and API surfaces
- It focuses on providing a consistent and scalable developer experience that any developer (both internal and external) can leverage to accelerate a merchant’s ability to create value using Stripe
- You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including:
- Merchant Experience: This team builds much of the backend and frontend platform that powers the Stripe Dashboard
- Millions of businesses use the Dashboard every day to manage their operations, and thousands of Stripes build product experiences in the Dashboard to enable these businesses to succeed
- Organizations & Authentication Platform (OAP): This team is responsible for building Organizations, which allows merchants to effectively and centrally manage their businesses across multiple Stripe accounts
- It also maintains the authentication platform, which powers the authentication experience for the Stripe dashboard and all products hosted on it
- As Stripe continues to grow its suite of product offerings beyond payments, Organizations will unlock a new phase of growth for Stripe
- We will do this by enabling our platforms and businesses to model their complex businesses and distribute all of Stripe’s products to their end users
- Developer Platform: This team builds Stripe's API platform and external developer experience
- They focus on external merchants and how they communicate with Stripe – via SDK, docs, and developer tools such as Workbench and sandboxes
- Team Matching Note: Matching you with one of the sub-teams within DEeP will begin during the final stage of the interview process
- Ensure our platforms are reliable, scalable, secure, and extensible
- Shape future-proof interfaces that are easy to build with
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Help drive sound technical decision making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Stripe
- Debug production issues across services and various levels of the tech stack
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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