Backend / API Engineer, Stripe
Advanced Attacks
CA$134.4-201.6k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$134.4-201.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for people with a strong background and passion in building successful backend systems, services and APIs that deliver impactful product values to our customers
- You are comfortable in dealing with changes
- You love to take initiatives, and bias towards action
- We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role
- At least 2 years of professional software development experience
- Experience in building distributed systems and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Write high quality code that is tested thoroughly, supported by clear documentation and has appropriate production observability
- Empathy with users and a strong customer focus
- Enjoyment in working with a diverse group of people with different expertise
- Experience with or interest in ML, which powers many of the products we own
- Proficient in Ruby, Java, and Scala; language can be learned and we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
- Strong data analysis skills using SQL
- Experience in payments and/or fraud
What the job involves
- The Advanced Attacks team aims to protect our users, financial partners and Stripe from transaction level fraud attacks such as card testing
- To achieve this we develop fast and scalable infrastructure, and use ML models to detect and take action on fraud transactions while minimizing false positives to avoid user loss
- As a backend engineer, you will design and build platforms and services that are configurable and scalable to handle the most complex transaction fraud attacks across the world
- You will partner with many functions at Stripe, including ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Strategists and product leaders
- You will have an opportunity to work on infrastructure/platform systems, leverage ML to solve complex engineering problems on the chargepath and produce direct user-facing business impact
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems
- Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
- Build and launch new capabilities and products that bring significant value to customers
- Uphold our high engineering standards, and elevate quality and engineering efficiency within our many codebases and processes
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations
Otta's take
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
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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