Backend / API Engineer, Stripe
Risk
$150.5-269.2k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$150.5-269.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of industry experience shipping high-quality products
- Enjoy and have experience building scalable backend infrastructure
- Strong analytical capability and ability to quickly ramp up in a new area, and tackle ambiguous problems
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
- Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact
- Thrive in a collaborative environment
What the job involves
- Stripe’s mission is to build the economic infrastructure for the internet. Risk and Compliance Engineering builds products to lower Stripe’s financial and regulatory risk at scale, while retaining a best in class user experience
- We build user-facing products, and backend platforms to ensure Stripe’s users are compliant with regulatory and financial partner requirements
- We protect Stripe’s brand while also protecting the company from financial losses that can put Stripe’s business at risk
- The Risk group consists of backend and full stack engineers who tackle this problem through creative new product ideas and scalable infrastructure
- We are undertaking several new efforts, where you can have an outsized impact on the architecture, implementation, and design choices behind these systems
- Design elegant risk-oriented abstractions that other Stripe engineers will be using to easily integrate with our risk management systems
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company including engineering, product, policy, legal, operations, and data science to ensure the abstractions you design will work for Risk users
- Build and run systems that expose these abstractions in easily accessible ways to engineering teams across Risk and the rest of Stripe
- Contribute to the overall safety of Stripe by helping other teams think more holistically about how their systems introduce new and handle existing risk
- Debug production issues across services across multiple levels of the stack
- 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."
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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