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
The Direct Surfaces Team’s mission is to make it delightful for users to manage their money. We’re rebuilding and unbundling the core of Stripe so that no matter what the business, the location or use-case there is a single place that can fulfil all financial needs: Stripe Treasury. This is a 0 → 1 new business at Stripe so if that sounds exciting we’d love to hear from you!
What you’ll do
Full-stack engineers at Stripe are comfortable working on new products under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations.
Responsibilities
- Scope and lead technical projects, laying the groundwork for our products to iteratively evolve and scale
- Design, build, expand and maintain UIs their related APIs and services
- Work with our partners to design and launch new features and capabilities
- Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
- Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
- Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
Who you are
We’re looking for fullstack software engineers with experience building scalable products who have an eye for detail and are happy delivering changes at any layer of the technical stack.
Minimum requirements
- Have a strong technical background, including 3+ years of industry experience building high quality code and infrastructure
- Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products you build
- Understand good practices of building and working with UIs and APIs
- Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code
- Internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
- Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team
- Care deeply about mentorship and growing engineers
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
- Thrive in a collaborative environment
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Sales and Support to better understand our customers’ needs, Legal and Accounting to understand how global policies influence our money-moving infrastructure, etc.
Preferred qualifications
- Strong React Expertise
- Have experience using React Native
- Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features for products you build.
- Have experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets
Skills Required
- 3+ years of industry experience building high-quality code and infrastructure
- Experience building scalable products
- Experience ensuring strong user experience and ease of use
- Understanding of good practices for building and working with UIs and APIs
- Ability to measure success by business impact
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and earn trust across levels
- Mentorship and engineer development experience
- Ability to prefer simple, scalable solutions and designs
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment
- Strong React expertise
- Experience using React Native
- Experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets
Stripe Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stripe and has not been reviewed or approved by Stripe.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, EAP, and mental‑health support such as therapy sessions; wellness resources are consistently highlighted across materials. Coverage breadth and depth are repeatedly positioned as a core strength.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for birthing and non‑birthing parents, fertility benefits, and adoption assistance are emphasized, making family support a standout element. Feedback suggests these programs compare favorably to common tech benchmarks.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness stipends, gym reimbursement, and onsite meals/snacks (where available) are commonly offered, with flexible lifestyle funds supporting varied needs globally. Education stipends and similar perks further bolster day‑to‑day wellbeing.
Stripe Insights
What We Do
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook—use the company’s software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Over the long term, Stripe aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
