Requirements

A strong technical background, including 6+ 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.

Nice to Haves

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.

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.

Unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach.
Chance to work on user-friendly features, APIs, and backend systems handling regulatory compliance at scale.
Opportunity for impact and growth with ample challenges and collaboration cross-functionally.
Deliver scalable and reliable solutions aligning with Stripe's mission to increase the GDP of the internet.