Staff Engineer, Stripe
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€129.2-182.4k
Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
€129.2-182.4k
Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a seasoned technical leader with a strong background or interest in building successful products and systems
- 10+ years of experience shipping high-quality products
- An entrepreneurial mindset
- Thrived in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Comfortable being truly full stack, navigating codebases with different languages and tools
- Experience as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
- Ability to internalise the best ideas from across the organisation, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
- Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
- Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers as their technical leader
Desirable
- Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products you build
- Have experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets
- Served as the technical lead and defined the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
What the job involves
- As a staff engineer, you’ll work with engineering managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional partners to design the technical underpinnings of Stripe’s newest products
- At the same time, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to be hands-on building key systems, and will be directly responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale technical efforts as well acting as a technical mentor and leader for other engineers
- Work with engineers & technical leaders across the company to ship interoperable products on strong foundations
- Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end
- Build experiences for businesses that range from high growth startups to leading global companies providing them with the tools so they can run their business and not worry about tax
- Improve engineering standards, tooling and processes
- Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale, and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems
- Advise Stripe leadership on key technology and product roadmap considerations
- Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
- Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
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."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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