What you'll do
As a software engineer, you'll design and build platforms and services that are configurable and scalable around the globe. You'll partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on infrastructure and platform systems and produce direct user-facing business impact.
Organizations is one of Stripe's biggest bets. You'll join a team with an ambitious and exciting goal at an early stage, with several opportunities to solve complex engineering problems at scale. If this sounds exciting, we'd love to speak with you.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and performant services and systems
Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
Build and launch new capabilities and products that bring significant value to customers
Uphold our high engineering standards and elevate quality and engineering efficiency within our many codebases and processes
Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations
Debug production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack
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
Strong technical background, including 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer, with an affinity for building scalable backend infrastructure
Experience delivering, extending, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build
Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Ability to stitch together many different services even if you haven't worked with them before
Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones and good intuition for what is lasting and scalable
The skills to build holistically—from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact
Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from colleagues at all levels
Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers as their technical leader
Preferred qualifications
Fellow engineers feel they are able to learn from you, and you care deeply about mentoring others
Propensity to ask questions, assume good intentions, and default to transparency
You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers who join your team
You've worked to build pricing tooling that scales
