iOS Engineer, Stripe
Identity
$156.8-235.2k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Posted today
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Posted today
$156.8-235.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of professional software-development experience, including meaningful experience building and shipping mobile applications or SDKs
- Experience developing for at least one major mobile platform using technologies such as Swift or Objective-C for iOS
- Strong software-design fundamentals and experience creating maintainable APIs, components, or frameworks
- Experience delivering mobile functionality beyond an isolated UI layer, for example, integrating with APIs and services, handling local state, or working with device capabilities
- Experience testing, debugging, monitoring, and improving mobile software in production
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, design, and other technical and non-technical partners
- A demonstrated commitment to building high-quality user and developer experiences
Desirable
- Experience building mobile SDKs, shared libraries, or developer-facing APIs used outside your immediate team
- Experience with both iOS and Android, or with cross-platform technologies such as React Native or Kotlin Multiplatform
- Experience with camera, image-processing, document-capture, biometrics, or other device-integrated mobile experiences
- Experience designing mobile software that handles sensitive data and applies security and privacy principles by default
- Familiarity with accessibility, internationalization, mobile performance, and unreliable network conditions
- Experience with mobile CI, automated testing, release automation, observability, or developer-productivity tooling
- Experience contributing to backend APIs or services that support mobile products
- Ability to simplify complex requirements and favor durable, scalable solutions
- Comfort reasoning clearly and moving with urgency in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
- Familiarity with Stripe’s products, ideally through integrating Stripe APIs or SDKs into another application
What the job involves
- As an iOS engineer on the Identity team, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain Stripe Identity’s mobile SDKs and verification experiences across iOS, Android, and React Native
- Create intuitive, polished experiences for complex flows such as identity-document and selfie capture, while accounting for accessibility, device capabilities, and varied real-world conditions
- Build reliable and extensible SDK APIs and reusable components that make it easy for developers to integrate Stripe Identity into their applications
- Work across mobile clients, supporting APIs, and services to deliver features end to end rather than treating the mobile application as an isolated layer
- Improve SDK performance, reliability, observability, testing, release processes, and backward compatibility
- Make thoughtful architectural decisions that balance user experience, developer experience, security, privacy, and long-term maintainability
- Partner closely with product managers, designers, machine-learning engineers, backend engineers, user researchers, and other mobile teams
- Work with Stripe users and field teams to understand integration challenges and turn their feedback into product and platform improvements
- Help establish and evolve mobile-engineering practices across Identity and Stripe
- Operate and maintain the systems and SDKs the team owns, including diagnosing production issues and improving them based on what we learn
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 payment 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 extending its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil, Japan and India. It is also partnering with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that is monetising OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhancing Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forward 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 14 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
(CEO)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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