Backend Engineer, Stripe

Developer SDKs, Golang Expert

$163.1-244.7k

Salary based on US rate and may vary depending on location

PHP

Python

.NET

Java

Node.js

Ruby

Golang

Senior level

Toronto

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

Job no longer available

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Job no longer available

$163.1-244.7k

Salary based on US rate and may vary depending on location

PHP

Python

.NET

Java

Node.js

Ruby

Golang

Senior level

Toronto

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of experience as a software engineer
2+ years experience in Golang
1+ years experience in Node.js
An interest in working with multiple programming languages

Desirable

2+ years of experience in the area of developer tooling
Experience in 1 or more programming languages among .NET, Java, Python, PHP and Ruby
Experience building libraries and/or SDKs
Knowledge of Open API spec and protobuf

What the job involves

Our team owns open-source SDKs that reflect the Stripe API in seven different programming languages
A vast majority of server-side Stripe integrations are built using our open-source SDKs
Our team also owns an in-house code generation framework which is used to generate not just the SDKs, but the code snippets in our documentation and the commands in Stripe Shell which is an in-browser version of the Stripe CLI
We are dedicated to providing a world class experience for developers using our SDKs
We influence how APIs are authored at Stripe so that they get represented in a user friendly way in SDKs and documentation
We want to collaborate with and help our friends in the Stripe community who build and maintain SDKs in programming languages that we do not support
In this role, you’ll have an opportunity to shape the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power over 80% of the payment volume at Stripe
Be the Golang expert in the team representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic
Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work towards a future where we open source it to make it easier for 3rd party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries
Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process
Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe
Support our users reaching out to us on the open source GitHub repositories for our SDKs
Add support for new language features in SDKs
Help lead Stripe's API design process, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that are surfaced through our SDKs
Influence the team’s strategy and roadmap through feedback-driven proposals, and direct engagement with our developer community on GitHub and other channels

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

Top investors

-5% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

Trustpilot (2)

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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