Staff Software Engineer, Stripe

Batch Compute

$209.8-314.8k

Hadoop
Spark
Flink
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Chicago
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto

More information about location

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

$209.8-314.8k

Hadoop
Spark
Flink
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Chicago
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto

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 a Software Engineer with experience designing, building and maintaining high-scale, distributed systems
  • We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role
  • If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply
  • The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement
  • 8+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
  • Proven track record of building large scale, complex distributed systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions
  • Experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers/product teams to deliver business value
  • Experience in operational maintenance of large scale distributed systems

Desirable

  • Track record of open source contributions to data processing or big data systems (Hadoop, Spark, Celeborn, Flink, etc)

What the job involves

  • The Batch Compute team at Stripe manages the infrastructure, tooling and systems behind running batch processing systems at Stripe, which are currently powered by Hadoop and Spark
  • Batch processing systems power several core asynchronous workflows at Stripe and operate at significant scale
  • You will work with a team that is in charge of the core infrastructure used by the product teams to build and operate batch processing jobs
  • You will have an opportunity to play a hands-on role in significantly rearchitecting our current infrastructure to be much more efficient and resilient
  • This re-architecture will introduce disaggregation of Hadoop storage and compute with open source solutions
  • Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
  • Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale for batch processing infrastructure

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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-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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