Software Engineer, Global Payouts & Marketplaces

Requirements

• Have a strong technical background, with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and APIs
• A passion for API design and amazing product experiences
• Experience building and operating highly reliable services
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• Take pride in ownership and driving projects to business impact
• Solve problems autonomously; ability to research a technical or product domain and apply your knowledge when designing and scoping projects

Nice to Haves

• Experience in building APIs and scalable distributed systems in service-based architecture

What you'll be doing

• Scope and lead technical projects, laying the groundwork for our products to iteratively evolve and scale
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
• Support our users and keep our systems reliable and performant
• 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
• Produce high-level internal and external documentation
• Mentor and provide support to other team members

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunity to work at a financial infrastructure platform for businesses
• Work within a collaborative team of engineers
• Contribute to the mission of increasing the GDP of the internet
• An unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach