Backend / API Engineer, Stripe
User Billing
$150.5-225.7k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$150.5-225.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in data modeling, API design, distributed systems and data pipeline development
- Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry
- Think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high quality code. We work mostly in Java, Scala, and Ruby
- However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
Desirable
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
- Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise (for example, ¼ of Stripes work in a country that’s different from the one they grew up in)
What the job involves
- As a backend engineer, you will design and build platforms, tooling, and system solutions that are configurable and scalable around the globe
- You will partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on infrastructure/platform systems, as well as produce direct user-facing business impact
- Design APIs and data models that facilitate complex system integrations
- Design, build and maintain large-scale production services and data pipelinesDesign APIs and data models that facilitate complex system integrations
- Design, build and maintain large-scale production services and data pipelines
- Work on systems critical to Stripe’s current and future operation, with responsibility for billions of dollars of payments volume
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company including engineering, product, operations, finance, data science, accounting, sales, and operations
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
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."
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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