Backend Engineer, Stripe

Organizations and Authentication Platform

$150.5-225.7k

Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
New York

More information about location

Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

Open for applications

Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Open for applications

$150.5-225.7k

Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
New York

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Role

Who you are

  • Strong technical background, including 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer, with an affinity for building scalable backend infrastructure
  • Experience delivering, extending, and maintaining large scale distributed systems
  • Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
  • Ability to stitch together many different services together even if you have not worked with them before
  • Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and having a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable
  • The skills to build holistically – from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact
  • Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from colleagues at all levels
  • Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers as their technical leader

Desirable

  • Fellow engineers feel they are able to learn from you, and you care deeply about mentoring others
  • Propensity to ask questions, assume good intentions, and defaulting to transparency
  • You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team

What the job involves

  • As a backend engineer, you will design and build platforms & services that are configurable and scalable around the globe
  • You will partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on infrastructure/platform systems, as well as produce direct user-facing business impact
  • Organizations is one of Stripe’s biggest bets
  • You will be joining a team with an ambitious and exciting goal at an early stage, with several opportunities to solve complex engineering problems at scale
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems
  • Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
  • Build and launch new capabilities and products that bring significant value to customers
  • Uphold our high engineering standards, and elevate quality and engineering efficiency within our many codebases and processes
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations
  • Debug production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack

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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-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

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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