Software Engineer, Stripe

• We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re passionate about solving business problems and making direct impact on customers, you are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems
• If you are a solid engineer and eager to work on financial related platforms/products, we are eager to talk to you
• 5+ years professional software development experience
• Experience designing and implementing solutions to large scale data problems
• Have delivered production systems of big scale
• Write high quality code
• We work mostly in Scala, Java, Spark, Airflow, and Javascript
• Are interested in solving different business problems at breadth for Stripe’s Finance team
• However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework

Desirable

• The Finance Engineering team is at the core of Stripe to empower mission-critical financial domains including Accounting, Finance & Strategy, Tax, GTM and Treasury
• Engineers on the Financial Engineering team build platforms, data pipelines, and financial products for the Finance team led by Stripe’s CFO
• The use cases include financial analytics and insights, accounting automation, auditing, financial planning & forecasting, and financial business intelligence
• We deal with big-data, process PBs of data daily with high availability and rigor and are the financial engine of the company
• You will design, build, and maintain large-scale platforms, data pipelines, tooling and systems for the Finance team led by Stripe’s CFO, by leveraging front-end, back-end, data warehousing and batch processing technologies
• Make direct business impact in some of Stripe’s most mission critical business domains including Accounting, Finance & Strategy, Treasury, GTM and Business Operations
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
• Build watertight controls across pipelines to ensure super high accuracy for all financial transactions (hundreds of billions of dollars)
• Ensure accurate, reliable, and timely financial reporting delivered to a single source-of-truth financial data warehouse
• Work in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
• Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture