Staff API / Full Stack Engineer, Stripe
Accounts
Salary applicable to candidates in the US only
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Salary applicable to candidates in the US only
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Comfortable being truly full stack, navigating codebase with different languages and tools
- Experience as a technical lead for large project (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
- Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build
- Ability to internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
- Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from colleagues at all levels
- Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers as their technical leader
Desirable
- You have a strong technical background, including 8+ years of experience designing and engineering products, user surfaces, and APIs for high-impact products
- You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team
- Senior engineers feel they are able to learn from you, and you care deeply about mentoring others
What the job involves
- Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams to deliver delightful developer experiences and comprehensive interfaces with core account primitives
- Build beautiful end-to-end user experiences as well as high-performance APIs that power them
- Ensure our infrastructure is extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets SLAs for both external and internal users
- 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
- Mentor and coach both individual contributors and managers to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe
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
Few 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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