Staff Engineer, Stripe

Service Platform

€126.4-189.6k

Python
Java
Kafka
Go
Ruby
Expert level
Dublin
Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

Open for applications

Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Open for applications

€126.4-189.6k

Python
Java
Kafka
Go
Ruby
Expert level
Dublin

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Role

Who you are

  • We expect you to bring your curiosity and critical thinking skills to this challenging domain
  • We are looking for individuals with a strong background in designing and delivering high-performance infrastructure products for both internal and external customers
  • We would love to hear from you whether you have spent your entire career in infrastructure or are looking to apply your skill set to the database engineering domain for the first time
  • 10+ years of technical experience or 7+ years in infrastructure / platform engineering field
  • 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role
  • Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products)
  • Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers
  • Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth
  • Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding
  • Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
  • Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication
  • Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset
  • Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to high level of psychological safety for all team members and partner
  • Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go)

Desirable

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide)
  • Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc)
  • Experience leading partially remote teams
  • Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs
  • Experience building serverless platforms
  • Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on call rotations

What the job involves

  • The Service Platform org is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing our payment systems, fraud detection, and a multitude of other products
  • As an infrastructure team, you will build and expand the service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable. We build powerful interfaces for engineers that depend on these systems—deployment, load balancers, web framework, databases, Kafka and Kubernetes—while keeping them highly available and performant
  • We’re looking for engineering leaders who can drive the technical vision of Stripe’s service infrastructure platform for thousands of engineers to use and build on top of, and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces
  • You will join as a Technical Lead for one of the most impactful teams at Stripe. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs, and advance service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption at Stripe
  • By collaborating with the team’s technical leaders, you will ensure the software your team builds meets the needs of Stripe and its customers
  • We are a highly effective team that consistently delivers high-impact results while genuinely caring for one another
  • Lead a team of talented engineers on the team, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
  • Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision
  • Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high quality solutions that meet user needs
  • Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
  • Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure’s key engineering initiatives
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design, vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes) for team members.
  • Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe’s services roadmap
  • Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team

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Insights

Top investors

-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

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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