Backend / API Engineer, Stripe
User Billing
$150.5-269.2k
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$150.5-269.2k
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for people with a strong background or interest in working across these domains to build successful platforms and systems
- You’re comfortable dealing with many moving pieces, you work effectively across teams and functions, and you have exquisite attention to detail
- You’re looking forward to learning new technologies, systems, and problem domains
- 3+ years of experience in data modeling, API design, distributed systems and data pipeline development
- Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
- Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
- Think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high quality code. We work mostly in Java, Scala, and Ruby
- However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise (for example, ¼ of Stripes work in a country that’s different from the one they grew up in)
What the job involves
- As a backend engineer, you will design and build platforms, tooling, and system solutions that are configurable and scalable around the globe
- You will partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on infrastructure/platform systems, as well as produce direct user-facing business impact
- Design APIs and data models that facilitate complex system integrations
- Design, build and maintain large-scale production services and data pipelines
- Work on systems critical to Stripe’s current and future operation, with responsibility for billions of dollars of payments volume
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company including engineering, product, operations, finance, data science, accounting, sales, and operations
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
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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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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