Software Engineer, Stripe

• A strong technical background, including 2+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems.
• Solid understanding of best practices in designing, building, and working with APIs
• You are comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, balancing tactical and strategic considerations
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems

Desirable

• We’re looking for an experienced software engineer to join our team and help build user-friendly features, APIs, and backend systems that handle regulatory compliance at scale. The team owns mission-critical user journeys across many of Stripe’s financial products, including Issuing, Treasury, and Capital
• As we’re still in our early days, this role offers ample opportunity for impact and growth. You’ll tackle challenging technical problems, collaborate cross-functionally, and raise the bar for operational excellence across our systems and processes
• Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale, and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
• Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making thoughtful tradeoffs that balance business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
• Mentor engineers earlier in their technical careers to help them grow