Backend API Engineer, Stripe
API Services
$163.1-244.7k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$163.1-244.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for software engineers with experience building APIs and scalable distributed systems in service based architecture
- 5+ years in engineering across a wide range of products
- Demonstrated experience of leading initiatives across large engineering organizations, spanning multiple teams and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence tech roadmap planning and execution
- A strong passion for API design and amazing developer experiences
- Thrives in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
- Solve problems autonomously; ability to research a technical or product domain and apply your knowledge when designing and scoping projects
- Attention to detail, especially around performance, accessibility, reliability, and security
Desirable
- Experience with multiple languages (Ruby, Go, Java)
- Strong, demonstrated writing abilities, both in terms of documentation intended for end-users and executive/strategic comms intended to drive the team direction
- You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
What the job involves
- Build Stripe’s public API infrastructure and tooling
- Ensure our APIs are secure, reliable, and performant
- Solve product problems and build delightful API and developer experiences for our users
- Work across different products, tech stacks, and programming languages
- Turn ambiguous problems that our developer users are facing into concrete products, from proposal, to kick-off, to building, and launching
- Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Collaborate, mentor and provide support to other team members
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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