Stripe
Backend / API Engineer, Local Payment Methods
Stripe, Seattle, WA
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
Stripe's payments products have helped to accelerate many of the world's most innovative companies, and the BNPL/Wallets team maintains some of Stripe's largest consumer payment methods, processing billions of dollars in payments annually.
BNPLs and digital wallets are newer entrants to the payments space (vs credit cards), and as consumer products they evolve quickly. The team is focused on making these methods easiest to use for consumers and easiest to enable for merchants, and working with partners to continue to improve those areas.
What you'll do
Backend Engineers at Stripe are comfortable working on new products under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations.
Responsibilities
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
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
Stripe's payments products have helped to accelerate many of the world's most innovative companies, and the BNPL/Wallets team maintains some of Stripe's largest consumer payment methods, processing billions of dollars in payments annually.
BNPLs and digital wallets are newer entrants to the payments space (vs credit cards), and as consumer products they evolve quickly. The team is focused on making these methods easiest to use for consumers and easiest to enable for merchants, and working with partners to continue to improve those areas.
What you'll do
Backend Engineers at Stripe are comfortable working on new products under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations.
Responsibilities
- Scope and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale
- Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
- Work with our partners to launch new markets, payment methods, 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
- Teach and mentor the next generation of engineers at Stripe
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
- Have a strong technical background, including 2+ years of software engineer experience
- Understand good practices of building and working with 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
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
- 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
- Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products you build.
- Have experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets