About the company
Stripe, LLC. 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.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable and reliable backend services, webhooks and public-facing APIs
- Write high-quality, maintainable code to reliably process and evaluate data signals in real-time, solving complex problems at scale
- Take ownership of medium-sized technical projects, translating requirements and constraints into reliable, secure, and explainable system architectures
- Actively contribute to the team's on-call rotation, effectively debugging, operating, and maintaining high-visibility systems using established runbooks and best practices
- Engage directly with product teams to understand internal and external user pain points, using those insights to build the right solutions and help inform the team's roadmap
Requirements
- Must have a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, plus 3 years of related work experience in Software Engineering.
- In the alternative, the employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, plus 5 years of post-bachelor’s, progressive related work experience in Software Engineering.
- Must also have 3 years of experience in each of the following:
- Programming languages including Java, Ruby, Python and Go
- Building scalable and reliable backend services, webhooks and public-facing APIs
- Designing, building, and deploying distributed backend services in a production environment, including handling concurrency, fault tolerance, and service reliability at scale
- Working with relational databases in PostgreSQL, MySQL or NoSQL data stores, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for high-throughput workloads
- Stream processing or event-driven architectures in Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalent, including producing, consuming, and reliably processing high-volume data streams
- Translate product and engineering requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable system designs, including defining service boundaries, failure modes, and observability strategies
- Building automated systems or tooling to instrument, measure, and evaluate the end-to-end customer experience of digital products, including test automation frameworks, signal collection pipelines, or quality evaluation workflows
- Developing interactive frontend components, dashboards, or data reports using React and D3.js to visualize customer behavior, product metrics, and operational signals in real time
Conditions
- Salary: $235,090- $285,600/yr
- 40 hrs/week
- 50% Telecommuting Permitted.
- Multiple Positions Available.
- Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.