Senior Software Engineer, Docs Product

Details

Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. The company's mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and architecture of major platform initiatives, author design documents, and build consensus across engineering teams.
• Define technical roadmaps for complex, multi-quarter projects spanning multiple teams.
• Make critical architectural decisions for company documentation infrastructure, balancing scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
• Evaluate and set direction for integrating emerging technologies, including AI/LLM capabilities, into company documentation platforms and authoring tools.
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices, and technical guidelines for the team and broader organization.
• Partner with engineering teams across the company to understand documentation needs and design integrated solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and performant services and systems.
• Contribute high-quality code across the full stack and navigate codebases with different languages and tools.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues and improve system reliability.
• Take ownership of system health and incident response.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least four years of experience in software engineering.
• At least four years of experience working in a full-stack environment with a focus on Ruby, Java, TypeScript, or Bazel.
• At least four years of experience serving as a technical lead for large projects, defining roadmaps for projects spanning more than six months and several teams.
• At least two years of experience authoring and reviewing technical design documents and driving architectural decisions for complex systems while collaborating with junior colleagues.
• At least two years of experience building and scaling automated testing and validation frameworks.
• At least two years of experience designing and implementing persistent data models using MongoDB.
• At least two years of experience implementing emerging technical standards for AI/LLMs.

Compensation And Benefits

• Base salary: $190,400–$285,600 per year.
• Additional benefits may include equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses, a 401(k) plan, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and wellness stipends.
• 40 hours per week.
• 50% telecommuting permitted.
• Multiple positions available.
• NY59.