Software Engineer, Stripe
Money as a Service, Compliance
£81.2-121.8k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£81.2-121.8k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Have experience ensuring great user experiences and ease of use in the features and products you build
- Have experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets
- Served as the technical lead and defined the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
What the job involves
- 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
Salary benchmarks
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
-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
- Gym membership
- Food provided in the office
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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