Technical Lead, Stripe
Money Movement
$305.6-458.4k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$305.6-458.4k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- You have served as the technical lead for a group of 100+ engineers (or equivalent) and defined the roadmap for company-impacting projects spanning multiple teams and functions
- 15+ years of engineering experience OR equivalent combined work experience reflecting domain expertise as relevant to this position
- Experience influencing company strategy at the intersection of business needs and technology (you measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code)
- Demonstrated ability to balance execution and velocity with security, reliability, and efficiency
- Experience mentoring, and investing in the development of other engineering leaders and staff engineers
- You internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
Desirable
- Prior knowledge in financial technology space, particularly in the payment processing
What the job involves
- The Money Movement organization is working toward a future in which all of the complexity that comes with handling money (e.g. accepting different currencies, adopting new payment methods, integrating with hundreds of banks globally) is hidden from Stripe’s users
- It is core to Stripe’s business and thousands of developers will use our platform and infrastructure to create valuable products and services that billions of people use
- Our team is responsible for building out the platform that powers money movement for all Stripe Products including Connect, Issuing, and Corporate Card. Ultimately, our goal is to increase the GDP of the internet by making it easy to build global products, services, and platforms that handle money
- The Experiences pillar within the Money Movement team is responsible for building the core user facing abstractions and products that make it very easy for Stripe users to move and store money
- We’re looking for a seasoned technical leader for over 100+ engineers across the Money Movements organization that will help expand the capabilities of Stripe’s global payments network
- You’ll work with engineering leadership, senior engineers, and cross-functional partners to design and implement novel payment capabilities and tooling, deliver best-in-class reliability/performance, and power new product experiences
- You will be responsible for the successful delivery of large-scale technical efforts
- Advise Stripe leadership on key technology and product roadmap considerations
- Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams
- Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
- As a leader within Engineering, assist with organizational growth and development while maintaining a high bar for excellence and technical curiosity
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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