Staff Software Engineer, Stripe
Revenue Experience
$126.4-189.6k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$126.4-189.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of hands-on experience building large-scale, distributed systems
- Proven track record of building large scale, complex distributed systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions
- Experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers/product teams to deliver business value
- Experience leading and creating strong technical teams that balance operational excellence, collaboration and user needs
- Strong collaboration skills to work effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Past experience mentoring and investing in the development of engineers
Desirable
- Experience with infrastructure automation
- Experience with multiple programming languages, including Java, Python
- Experience building accounting related systems
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced technical leader to join our team to drive the technical roadmap across teams in the US, EMEA, and India
- In this role, you will work closely with engineering managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional partners to help design architecture, ensure technical excellence, and break down complex problems to make them more tractable with engineering teams
- You will be involved in the building of the technical bench, mentoring and growing the next senior engineers within the broader organisation
- You will work cross functionally to align on the business challenges in delivering excellent billing and accounting experiences to our users
- Often this will include influencing across organizations and grounding your arguments in solid data and a technical roadmap
- As such, you will have excellent technical leadership and communication skills
- You will also be hands-on in building key systems, while mentoring and leading other engineers
- Manage the technical leadership, execution, and roadmap for Revenue Experience
- Work cross functionally with business leaders across the company as well as partner engineering team
- Partner closely with engineering, product, and design leadership to define our product strategy and user experience
- Establish best practices, frameworks, and repeatable processes that enable the team to execute effectively
- Foster a culture of learning and data-driven decision making on the team and to influence the broader organization
- Mentor and support the growth of engineers at different levels in their careers
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."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-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 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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