Backend/API Engineer, Stripe

Payments & Risk

$150.5-269.2k

Java
Go
C++
C
Junior and Mid level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

Open for applications

Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Open for applications

$150.5-269.2k

Java
Go
C++
C
Junior and Mid level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Role

Who you are

  • Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above
  • 2+ years of professional hands-on experience in designing and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems
  • Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
  • Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Desirable

  • Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc)
  • Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
  • Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
  • Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

What the job involves

  • Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead
  • That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career
  • Stripe’s Payments Acceptance and Risk organizations are is at the heart of Stripe’s business
  • TheyIt areis responsible for enabling our users to accept payments worldwide, in a secure and reliable fashion
  • You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including:
  • Payins: The Payins organization builds products and platforms to help users accept payments from customers, including the APIs for configuring and processing payments, and Cards, our highest volume and most complex method for accepting payments
  • Local Payment Methods (LPM):The Local Payment Methods team is building the platform & enabling regional, non-card payment methods like Wallets, Buy Now Pay Later, Real Time Payments, Bank Transfers etc. that connect to millions of Stripe users globally. We're responsible for product experiences that help providers integrate these payment methods to improve their integration, boost their conversion, and grow their business
  • Optimized Checkout & Link: The Optimized Checkout and Link teams focus on building best-in-class checkout experiences that provide delightful checkout experiences for customers, while driving higher purchase conversion for merchants. As an organization, we work on Checkout, Payment Links, Elements, and Link
  • Risk: Risk Engineering develops products that reduce Stripe's financial and regulatory risk at scale while maintaining an excellent user experience. We ensure user compliance with regulatory and partner requirements, protecting both Stripe's brand and financial stability - by building both user-facing products and backend systems
  • You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day
  • Build a great customer experience for internal teams and Stripe users using our infrastructure
  • Scope and lead medium to large technical projects that align with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives
  • Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps, make effective technical trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
  • Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with customers and cross-functional stakeholders across Stripe
  • Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack

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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-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

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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