Staff Engineer, Payments

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse Stripe to accept payments grow their revenue and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments enabling regional non-card payment options and extending Stripes capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments.

What youll do

Engineers on the team have the opportunity to expand the reach of Stripes global payments network design and implement novel payment capabilities and deliver best-in-class reliability and performance.

Learn more about payment methods at Stripes Payment Methods Guide.

Responsibilities

• Scope design build and maintain APIs services and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
• Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices Stripe system realities and numerous stakeholders preferences and concerns
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as experts product design infrastructure and operations
• Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe

Who you are

Were 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.

Minimum requirements

Preferred qualifications

Required Experience :

Staff IC

Key Skills

Computer Science,Docker,Kubernetes,Python,VMware,C / C++,Go,System Architecture,gRPC,OS Kernels,Perl,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1