Software Engineer, Stripe

Machine Learning Infrastructure

CA$134.4-201.6k

Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada
Toronto

More information about location

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

CA$134.4-201.6k

Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada
Toronto

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Role

Who you are

  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • A solid engineering background and experience with service oriented architecture and large-scale distributed systems
  • Familiarity with software development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing and deployment
  • Experience with operating online services with high availability and low latency
  • A strong sense of curiosity and a desire to both learn and share knowledge with your peers
  • Are motivated by solving hard problems and making impact by doing so
  • Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and partner teams

Desirable

  • Experience with building ML infrastructure and platform services
  • Experience with training and shipping machine learning models to production to solve business problems

What the job involves

  • Stripe processes over $1T in payments volume per year, which is roughly 1% of the world’s GDP, for millions of customers from startups to enterprises
  • The tremendous amount of data makes Stripe one of the best places to do machine learning
  • While being an integral part of almost every product line at Stripe (e.g., Payments, Radar, Capital, Billing, etc.), ML is still in its early days in realizing its full potential at Stripe and is a top priority in the coming years
  • The ML Infra team builds services and tools that power every step in the ML lifecycle, including data exploration, feature generation, experimentation, training, deploying, and serving ML models
  • You will work closely with ML engineers, data scientists, and platform infrastructure teams to build scalable, reliable, and flexible systems that substantially increase ML velocity across the company
  • Designing and building scalable, reliable, and flexible infrastructure that powers the end-to-end ML lifecycle at Stripe
  • Creating user-friendly services and libraries that enable ML users at Stripe to seamlessly transition from experimentation to production across Stripe’s systems
  • Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
  • Pairing with product teams and ML engineers to develop easy-to-use infrastructure for production ML models

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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