Software Engineer, Stripe
Experimentation
$163.1-244.7k
Salary is for US applicants only
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$163.1-244.7k
Salary is for US applicants only
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- You have a strong background in running experiments or building experimentation platforms, and build quality software
- You enjoy partnering with other teams, and are excited about solving complex business problems
- You’re comfortable working on distributed teams with teammates, users, and dependencies in different locations
- 3-5 years of experience building software applications in large scale distributed systems
- Experience running operations for high availability, low latency systems
- Experience working through the full life cycle of software development, from talking to users, to design and implementation, to testing and deployment, to operations
- Enjoy partnering with other teams to drive business outcomes
Desirable
- At least two years of experience running A/B tests or building experimentation platforms
- Familiarity with the data science of advanced experimentation, including multi-armed bandit testing
What the job involves
- The Experimentation team provides infrastructure, tooling, and expertise for A/B testing at Stripe
- We build the UIs and libraries for running and analyzing experiments, APIs for assignment, and manage tooling to create and maintain relevant metrics
- We partner with teams like Payments, Fraud, ML, Website, and Documentation to develop experimentation programs that lift metrics or improve safety of code and model changes
- The next few years are focused on bringing more teams onboard and scaling up our infrastructure to increase the reach of experiments across Stripe
- You will work closely with software engineers, data scientists, PMs, and machine learning engineers to develop experimentation programs across Stripe that lift metrics or improve safety of code and model changes
- You will build and maintain the A/B testing, reducing friction, scaling up, and adding features to meet the needs of these programs
- Partnering with teams across Stripe to develop experimentation programs
- Building powerful, flexible, and user-friendly infrastructure and tooling to power all experimentation at Stripe
- Maintaining availability and latency requirements to power business critical applications
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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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
Articles
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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