Backend Engineer, Stripe
Financial Connections
$190.4-285.6k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$190.4-285.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- Strong technical background, including 3+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems
- Comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
- Track record of leading and shipping complex cross-team projects end-to-end — from scoping and design through production and operations
- You measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code
- Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset
- Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
- Care deeply about mentorship and growing engineers
- At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description
What the job involves
- We’re looking for Backend Engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable bank integration infrastructure
- In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work across the stack, creating intelligent systems that adapt to the availability of our banking partners and enable connectivity for new countries and product use cases
- Our work is often cross-cutting; you’ll play a key role in our partnerships with banks and financial institutions while delivering a next-generation connectivity platform to provide great user experiences
- Scope and lead large technical projects, translating business goals into clear technical requirements and executing effectively
- Align our tech stack with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for the needs of the emerging new businesses
- Work with engineers across the company to deliver comprehensive and reliable access to trustworthy banking data
- Balance the tradeoffs between short-term requirements and long-term roadmaps. Make decisions that consider business priorities, user experience, and sustainable technical foundations
- Mentor and collaborate with other engineers and managers to grow the next generation of leaders at Stripe
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 payment 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 extending its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil, Japan and India. It is also partnering with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that is monetising OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhancing Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forward 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 14 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
(CEO)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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