Staff Engineer, Stripe

• 10+ years of experience shipping high-quality products
• An entrepreneurial mindset
• Thrived in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Comfortable being truly full stack, navigating codebases with different languages and tools
• Experience as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
• Ability to internalise the best ideas from across the organisation, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
• Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
• Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers as their technical leader

Desirable

• As a staff engineer, you’ll work with engineering managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional partners to design the technical underpinnings of Stripe’s newest products
• At the same time, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to be hands-on building key systems, and will be directly responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale technical efforts as well acting as a technical mentor and leader for other engineers
• Work with engineers & technical leaders across the company to ship interoperable products on strong foundations
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end
• Build experiences for businesses that range from high growth startups to leading global companies providing them with the tools so they can run their business and not worry about tax
• Improve engineering standards, tooling and processes
• Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale, and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems
• Advise Stripe leadership on key technology and product roadmap considerations
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent

• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities
• Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
• Fertility benefits and parental leave

Total funding: $8.7bn

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.