Backend / API Engineer, Stripe

Funding

£72-144k

Junior, Mid, Senior and Expert level
London

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Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

Job no longer available

Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Job no longer available

£72-144k

Junior, Mid, Senior and Expert level
London

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Role

Who you are

  • We’re looking for software engineers with experience building APIs and scalable distributed systems in service based architecture
  • 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 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

What the job involves

  • The Funding team builds products which allow our users to move money into Stripe. After credit cards, we’re the number one way money moves into Stripe and are responsible for processing billions of dollars around the world; operating mission-critical services
  • Our products are foundational to Stripe and enable Payments, Issuing and Connect users to top-up their Stripe balances. We support some of the largest businesses running on Stripe today and are building for the next generation
  • We’re shipping new APIs and products to power the future of Stripe, expanding our existing capabilities to new markets and re-engineering for increased scale and stability
  • Our team collaborates across North America and the UK with primary locations in Toronto and London
  • As a backend engineer, you’ll design, build and operate APIs, features and services. You’ll work within a team of engineers and collaborate with cross-functional partners to scope new products, support users and ship high quality products
  • 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

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-5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
  • Fertility benefits and parental leave
  • Gym membership
  • Food provided in the office

Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)

Mar 2023

$6.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Mar 2021

$600m

SERIES H

Total funding: $8.7bn

Our take

Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.

More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.

To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."

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