Stripe, LLC. 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.
What you’ll doResponsibilities- Architect, build, and maintain robust APIs, services, and systems across engineering teams using Ruby and Java;
- Act as a domain expert of the payments family of Stripe products, and in particular various payout methods and underlying rails used in US / UK;
- Build and enhance software infrastructure, encompassing the complete development lifecycle from coding to testing, deployment, debugging, and maintenance;
- Design software systems leveraging scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure design outcomes;
- Contribute to core interface design and write code;
- Serve as a role model for how great software should be written;
- Contribute code changes in every layer of the stack, from launching a net new payout method API to making a UI change in the Stripe Dashboard for the Stripe Connect product; Scope and lead technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale;
- Engineer payments integration with banking partners to launch new markets, payout methods, and capabilities, while ensuring reliability and scalability;
- Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale;
- Design and implement secure systems for sensitive data storage;
- Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is necessary;
- Evaluate and make informed decisions about technology and architecture choices in developing payment products;
- Develop and execute short- and long-term roadmaps, making informed trade-offs to balance business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation;
- Ensure technical decisions align with broader strategic goals while addressing specific emerging business needs;
- Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation to ensure reliability; and
- Participate in the 24/7 on-call rota to manage and resolve production incidents affecting users.
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field followed by 2 years of experience in Software Development.
Position also requires 2 years of experience with the following:
- Building software solutions in Python, Ruby, Java and Typescript languages;
- Designing, building and working with large user-facing APIs;
- Translating business needs into software requirements and designs;
- Debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack;
- Designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high availability systems; and
- Designing and implementing secure systems for sensitive data storage.
Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/yr.
This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.
40 hrs/week
50% Telecommuting permitted.
Multiple Positions Available.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.CA47
#LI-DNISkills Required
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field plus 2 years of software development experience
- 2 years experience building software solutions in Python, Ruby, Java and Typescript
- 2 years experience designing, building and working with large user-facing APIs
- 2 years experience translating business needs into software requirements and designs
- 2 years experience debugging production issues across services and multiple stack levels
- 2 years experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high availability systems
- 2 years experience designing and implementing secure systems for sensitive data storage
Stripe Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is positioned as comprehensive across mental, physical, and medical plans. Mental-health support is repeatedly surfaced as a meaningful part of overall coverage.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave and fertility benefits are highlighted as core elements of the package. Leave-related benefits are portrayed as a standout area of support for families.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is framed as a relative strength compared to other parts of the employee experience. Pay is frequently characterized as competitive and, for many roles, perceived as fair in absolute terms.
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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.
