Backend Engineer, Stripe
Optimized Checkout & Link Data Engineering
CA$172-258k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$172-258k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for people with a strong background in data engineering and analytics to help us scale while maintaining correct and complete data
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering Master’s degree is preferred
- Have a strong engineering background and are interested in data
- 5+ years of experience with writing and debugging data pipelines using a distributed data framework (Hadoop/Spark/Pig etc…)
- Great data modeling skills, database design, relational/non-relational
- Very strong SQL proficiency, and preferably SQL query optimization experience
- Strong coding skills in Scala or Java for building performance data pipelines
- Strong understanding and practical experience with systems such as Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Iceberg, and Airflow
- Versed in software production engineering practices, version control, code peer reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience in AWS cloud is preferred
What the job involves
- The Optimized Checkout & Link team at Stripe builds best-in-class checkout experiences across web and mobile that delight consumers and streamline checkout flows for merchants
- Based across North America, we're a diverse team who are deeply passionate about redefining the payment experience creating outstanding value for merchants, increasing revenue, lowering cost and growing their business
- We work on Checkout, Payment Links, Elements, Payment Methods, and Link – each playing a crucial part in augmenting the economic landscape of the internet
- Our days are filled with exciting challenges and collaborative problem-solving as we strive to simplify payment options, create unique business solutions and enhance checkout ease
- Join us in crafting the future of digital commerce
- Conceptualize and own the data architecture for multiple large-scale projects, while evaluating design and operational cost-benefit tradeoffs within systems
- Be an advocate for data quality and excellence of our platform
- Create and contribute to frameworks that improve the efficacy of logging data, while working with data infrastructure to triage issues and resolve
- Gather requirements, understand the big picture, create detailed proposals in technical specification documents
- Productizing data ingestion from various sources, data delivery to various destinations, and creating well-orchestrated data pipelines
- Optimize pipelines, dashboards, frameworks, and systems to facilitate easier development of data artifacts
- Conduct SQL data investigations, data quality analysis and optimizations
- Contribute in peer code reviews, and help the team produce high quality code
- Mentor team members by giving/receiving actionable feedback
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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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
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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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