Who We Are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use 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 everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About The Team
High Performance Operations is a newly formed Infrastructure team whose mission is to provide technology solutions to the many operations workflows within the organization. From risk management, to legal compliance and translation/localization efforts, there is a great deal of work that needs to get done in order to ensure Stripe can operate and serve our customers in an effective and efficient manner. Having proper tooling is an important part of this. The team will own end-to-end solutions, develop them in response to internal stakeholder needs, and be key partners in the workings of the groups they serve. To further the team’s mission, we are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to work with Stripe.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and improve solutions for operations workloads
- Own problems from end to end, managing complexity and engaging directly with stakeholders to think through everything from business impact, to reliability and operability.
- Contribute to the product roadmap, help set the vision and strategy for the team, act as a sounding board for team leadership.
- Uphold Stripe’s high standards for engineering and product quality and mentor newer team members to do the same.
- Work with stakeholders across Stripe to balance and accommodate competing desires.
Who you are
We’re 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
- 3+ years of professional experience in a software development role
- Enjoy being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally
- Write high quality code that is tested thoroughly, supported by clear documentation and has appropriate production observability
- You are empathetic with users, both internal and external, and strive to create a better experience for all customers
- Enjoyment in working with a diverse group of people with different expertise
- Proven ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if you have not worked with them before
- Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design
Preferred qualifications
- Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby, Java; language can be learned and we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
- Experience with integrating RESTful APIs into web applications.