Technical Solutions Engineer, Stripe
$152.5-228.9k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$152.5-228.9k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- If you’re someone who enjoys working with all kinds of code, a fast researcher, a strong writer, and enthusiastic about helping others build mission-critical products with Stripe, we want to hear from you!
- At least 2 years of full-stack software development experience or significant experience building web or mobile apps
- Understands how to write good, clean code in multiple programming languages, as well as how to read code that might not be quite as well written
- Comfort working with a great deal of autonomy and limited supervision
- Likes interacting with new people, sometimes chatting live with many at the same time
- Enjoys the puzzle of solving open-ended problems, both individually and as a member of the team
- Direct experience talking about technical concepts, and would be comfortable explaining how Stripe works to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Loves constantly learning and re-learning a changing technical product, even when you’re a little out of your depth
- Can empathize with users of all experience levels and understand their questions to quickly grasp the real issues
- Ability to help users during working hours in the region you are in. This may occasionally include providing weekend coverage for monitoring/supporting critical infrastructure, which TSEs are uniquely equipped to assist with given the team’s knowledge around Stripe’s products and active integrations. The team is largely remote, and we are very supportive of working arrangements that allow for family care and other needs to be met
Desirable
- Enjoys writing in a clear and quick manner
- General software engineering skills are important to us, as we understand that new languages and frameworks can be learned if you understand the concepts
- Experience teaching or coaching developers
- Degree in Computer Science, Software/Computer Engineering, or a related analytical field of study
What the job involves
- The Technical Solutions Engineering (TSE) team is the glue that supports our developers and champions developer experience as being central to the overall experience of our users
- TSE interacts directly with developers more than any other team at Stripe, so your role will have a significant impact on what Stripe is known for and values most
- When we do our job well, developers all over the world are able to smoothly launch and grow their businesses on Stripe, whether they’re integrating payments for the first time or building complex financial systems
- TSEs understand the fundamentals of programming incredibly well and eagerly jump in and familiarize themselves with others’ code. You will do a wide variety of things, including explaining technical concepts about Stripe’s services, build and debug integrations with developers, and produce/improve guides that help our users solve particular problems to be successful with Stripe
- You will interact with developers of all skill levels through a variety of mediums, enabling them to be successful when using Stripe
- Early on, current team members will devote a large amount of time to teaching you and helping you get to a level of comfort and expertise with Stripe, its services, and how we interact with users. Later, we’d love for you to take on this role with others on the team and Stripes broadly, as teaching is a great way to learn and to reinforce what you know
- Communicate with a number of external engineers and developers and aid them in building their applications against Stripe’s infrastructure in a number of programming languages including Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, NodeJS, .NET, ReactJS, React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, and Java for Android
- Unblock external developers with their thorniest integration challenges through a variety of support channels including email, ticketing software, internal issue trackers, community platforms (like StackOverflow), and real-time chat software (like Slack and Discord)
- Develop and maintain internal and external documentation, examples, integration demos, and code-snippets that demonstrate usage patterns of the Stripe infrastructure
- Identify points of friction developers encounter and collaborate with engineering teams to make Stripe products better
- Develop and maintain a suite of internal support tooling for TSE and Stripe Support more broadly
- Aid in debugging web infrastructure for our users and identifying issues that may affect our broader developer landscape
- Participate in a number of extended engineering teams’ regular planning sessions, design reviews, and development meetings
- Build statistics and report on developer challenges regularly to the internal product engineering teams
- Act as a developer advocate and educational resource internal to the organization by regularly assembling trainings for non-developers internal to the organization and responding in real-time to product integration questions
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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