Software Engineer, Stripe
Developer Infrastructure
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 2+ years of professional, full-time software development experience
- Experience designing, developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
- Experience building tools to improve developer productivity, and empathy for the end users
- Experience writing high quality code in a major programming language (e.g. Ruby, Java, C#, Golang, Python)
- A background supporting engineer focused tools
Desirable
- Experience optimizing the end to end performance and reliability of distributed Systems
- Proficiency in either Golang or Ruby
- Familiarity with data privacy best practices
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a collaborative environment
- Experience mentoring and leading other engineers is a plus
What the job involves
- The Developer Productivity group is responsible for making Stripe’s developers happy and productive
- We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to accelerate Stripe engineering as Stripe scales
- We’re looking for people with an interest in building the tools to improve the day to day experience of Engineers in Stripe
- The ideal candidate will have a mix of technical expertise in either language processing tools, version control systems, contract testing, build systems, but most importantly a passion for solving developer experience problems, and a pragmatic ability to ship results iteratively
- You’ll be working on a mix of fault tolerant distributed systems and also software which runs on individual developer machines
- We have a ton of important work to do, which is why we’re hiring. Our active projects change all the time, but here are a few examples of recent projects so you can get an idea of the types of work we do:
- Work with the team to plan and deliver the next step change improvements to performance, reliability and cost efficiency for our CI platform
- All of our systems can sustain losing machines, and making our systems even more resistant to failure is a big theme for us. If you like thinking about distributed systems, you might find a good home here!
- If you love helping developers be more effective at their jobs, we have a ton of interesting projects around improving build reproducibility, improved performance using Bazel, as well as building new capabilities to simplify life for engineers working at Stripe
- Enhance the reliability, speed and efficiency of our largest builds
- One of the key ways to execute builds efficiently is to bake incrementality into every aspect of the build process
- We have accomplished a significant amount in this area, but have a long way to go
- Additionally, when an incremental test run consists of a few hundred thousand tests, a handful of bad tests which randomly fail can cause a cascade of build failures
- Building and enhancing the system responsible for detecting these will be critical to keep Stripe scaling!
- Enhance the ability for Engineers to test new workflows on their local machines, and in CI
- You will build large scale distributed systems, tools and libraries that serve as the interface to data infrastructure for all of Stripe’s engineering teams
- Maintaining and evolving existing distributed, and local, services
- Collaborating with engineers on the team, as well as cross-functional stakeholders, to develop prototype solutions for domains which are underserved by existing tooling
- Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure services
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
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 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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