Frontend Engineer, Stripe
Link & OCS
CA$134.4-258k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$134.4-258k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of software development experience, with an emphasis on modern frontend technologies (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React) and building delightful user interfaces
- Comfort operating as a frontend developer and owning projects end-to-end
- Are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact doing so
- Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise
Desirable
- Experience working in high-growth teams similar to Stripe
- Experience building financial systems or tools for financial experts
What the job involves
- Stripe’s Payments and Risk organizations are at the heart of Stripe’s business
- They are responsible for enabling our users to accept payments worldwide, in a secure and reliable fashion
- You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including:
- Payins: The Payins organization oversees the fundamental primitives of collecting payments across the Stripe ecosystem
- Custodians of mission-critical foundations, and stewards of essential administrative payment workflows, merchants rely on us to innovate on the fundamentals
- We act as catalysts towards realizing Stripe’s flexible and extensible multi-product platform
- Optimized Checkout & Link: The Optimized Checkout and Link teams focus on building best-in-class checkout experiences that provide delightful checkout experiences for customers, while driving higher purchase conversion for merchants
- As an organization, we work on Checkout, Payment Links, Elements, Payment Methods, and Link – each playing a crucial part in augmenting the economic landscape of the internet
- Within this organization, we are looking for frontend engineers across a few different areas:
- Product: You’ll join a payments team building high-quality UIs for merchants’ checkout pages or the Stripe Dashboard working with experienced frontend and full-stack engineers to deliver world-class checkout experiences
- You’ll work with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders across the organization to build new features and products across Elements, Checkout, and Link
- Frontend Platform: As a platform engineer you will be building tools and systems to enable a 100+ engineering organization to deliver delightful frontend features for millions of Stripe merchants
- Our team places a heavy emphasis on being domain experts on how to develop reliably and safely for the web platform at a very high scale
- Experimentation/Growth: As part of a growth-focused engineering team, you will improve our buyer-facing experiences, experimentation foundations, and systems that power intelligence to improve a consumer’s experience and checkout conversion
- This is a new, exciting area of focus for our organization, and we are looking for frontend engineers with growth or experimentation expertise to help us deliver more experiments than we’ve ever run before, and help us improve our foundations
- You’ll work closely with data science, product managers, and designers to create, build, and execute buyer experiments efficiently
- As a frontend engineer at Stripe, you’ll join fast-moving teams building consumer-focused UIs and full-stack products
- You’ll work with experienced engineers, product, design, and data science to conceive of and deliver world-class solutions to end-users problems
- Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end
- Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of Stripe
- Craft new products and features that impact millions of people and businesses around the world such as building the fastest and most seamless checkout flow
- Explore creative opportunities for next-gen payments experiences that leverage the depth of Stripe’s payment technology
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing and operations
- Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
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
Few 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
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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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