Tech Stack
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
API
AWS @ 3
Docker @ 3
GraphQL @ 3
Kubernetes @ 3
Payments
gRPC @ 3
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
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Who We Are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the Team
The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. Optimized Checkout and Link teams work to create best-in-class checkout experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and drive merchant conversion rates. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding Stripe's brand and financial stability.
Sub-organizations include Link & OCS, Payments Acceptance, and Risk.
Exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during the final stages. You may also be considered for different organizations based on your experience, location, and other factors.
Responsibilities
- Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
- Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Mentor and support engineers' growth.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large scale while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience, excluding internship or co-op experience.
- Strong coding skills in any programming language. The interview process is language agnostic, and new languages can be learned on the job.
- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work across workstreams within the team and contribute to peers' success.
- Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial approach to work.
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight internal and external users.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
- Good understanding and practical knowledge of cloud-based services and technologies such as gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.