Backend Engineer, Stripe

Globalization Platform

€76-114k

Java
Go
Ruby
Senior level
Barcelona
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

€76-114k

Java
Go
Ruby
Senior level
Barcelona

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Role

Who you are

  • Residence in Barcelona, Spain
  • Have 5+ years of backend engineering experience building services using programming languages such as Java, Ruby, or Go
  • Proven experience in developing infrastructure solutions
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integration with external vendors
  • Have a strong product sense and put strong emphasis on product quality. The big picture of what a great native experience is lies in Globalization Platform’s hands so we need to maintain a high bar
  • Enjoy working with others and the ability to work well in a collaborative environment

Desirable

  • Experience in implementing solutions for localization in a global software environment
  • Proficiency in either Java or Ruby

What the job involves

  • You will design, implement and maintain the platform for software internationalization at scale, including its user experience, and driving widespread adoption among the engineering teams
  • The primary objective of this platform is to bring forth substantial enhancements in the quality, speed, and cost-efficiency of localization processes
  • Design and build a comprehensive globalization infrastructure capable of supporting diverse clients, including services, UIs, and written communications. Ensure deep integration with CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous localization
  • Enable seamless integration with external providers, such as translation management services, to streamline localization workflows
  • Implement quality assurance mechanisms and robust processes to deliver an exceptional user experience, including regular assessments of platform efficiency
  • Explore cutting-edge technologies, like AI/ML-based translations, to optimize localization turn-around time and cost-effectiveness
  • Facilitate a smooth transition from the existing infrastructure to the new platform, minimizing disruptions and maintaining operational continuity

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

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

Top investors

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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