Staff Software Engineer, Stripe
Accounting Automation
$126.4-189.6k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$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 shape and build platforms to support Stripe’s accounting needs.
- In this role, you will work closely with engineering managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional partners to design the technical architecture of the product to enable scale, interoperability and an amazing user experience.
- You will help grow the team to become a strong leader in delivering the Commerce Systems vision. You will also have the opportunity to be hands-on in building key systems, while mentoring and leading other engineers. Join us in spearheading a transformational opportunity for Stripe
- Manage the technical leadership, execution, and roadmap for Revenue and Finance automation suite
- Lead by example by designing and implementing critical platforms that enable seamless interoperability across the RFA suite of products
- 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 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 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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