Requirements
- Have a strong technical background, including 2+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems
- Understand good practices of building and working with APIs
- Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code Internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
- Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team
- Care deeply about mentorship and growing engineers and managers
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Sales and Support to better understand our customers’ needs, Legal and Accounting to understand how global policies influence our money-moving infrastructure, etc.
Nice to Haves
- Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of 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 You'll Be Doing
- Scope and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale
- Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
- Work with our partners to launch new markets - developing new payment methods and capabilities
- Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
- Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
- Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Teach and mentor both individual contributors and managers to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe. As a senior member on a new team, you will be looked to for guidance
Perks and Benefits
Perks and benefits information not provided.