Frontend Engineer, Stripe
Internal Identity
$150.5-225.7k
More information about location
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$150.5-225.7k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a candidate who enjoys working in all parts of the technology stack, but is especially excited about building delightful and intuitive user experiences
- While prior experience with Security is definitely a plus, it's not a requirement for this role
- 3+ years of experience in full-time frontend web development roles
- Hands-on experience building web applications in modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3)
- Experience with modern frontend unit testing and integration testing frameworks
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and modern frontend build tools
- Basic understanding of backend technologies and database systems
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
Desirable
- Previous experience with security is beneficial, but not required
- Interested in the field of usable security, excited about the intersection of security, user experience, and frontend development
- Experience with UI/UX design principles and tools, as well as design research methodologies
- Familiarity with the Go programming language
- Takes pride in shepherding projects from ideation through to completion, where completion often involves partnering with engineering teams to carefully roll out changes that affect their workflows
What the job involves
- The Internal Identity Team's mission is to protect Stripe by providing primitives that enable secure user access at Stripe
- We build tools that enable Stripe to enforce strong authentication and authorization controls, while providing a seamless user experience for Stripes to do their best work
- Our team is responsible for core identity, authentication, and authorization systems critical to Stripe's security infrastructure
- As a Frontend Engineer on the Internal Identity Team, you'll play a pivotal role in implementing core principles of usable security within Stripe’s internal security tooling
- You'll work on projects that directly impact Stripe's security posture and employee productivity, driving initiatives that enable a world-class user experience for Stripe’s internal security products
- Design and develop modern, responsive web applications for identity and access management systems, with a focus on user experience
- Participate in the product development process end-to-end, from ideation and design to implementation and user feedback
- Implement best practices in frontend development, including component-driven development, responsive design, and integration with Stripe’s design pattern library
- Contribute to the full stack development of identity and access management systems, including design and implementation of core APIs, services, and data-flows in Go
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack, from the frontend to the storage layer
- Uphold Stripe’s high standards for engineering and product quality and mentor less experienced team members to do the same
- This role is available either in an office or a remote location (typically, 35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office)
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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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
Articles
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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