Software Engineer, Internal Systems

Our mission is to enable effective financial decisions through reliable data, increased efficiency, and automation. We support Marketing, Sales, Seller, Accounting, Tax, Finance and Strategy (F&S), Finance Operations (FinOps), and Treasury functions across automation, data insights, and process improvements.

You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including

Seller Systems — Responsible for building the systems and tooling that make sellers and internal revenue teams at Stripe dramatically more productive and effective. We partner with Sales, Finance, Legal, and Product to deliver a single "plane of glass" selling experience that spans deal creation and modeling, negoti...

We're looking for Software Engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams — from Infrastructure to Product — at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.
Design, build, and maintain beautiful, robust, and high-performance APIs and services
Ensure our infrastructure is extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets service-level agreements for both external and internal users 
Hide complexity from our users behind simple yet powerful abstractions 
Partner closely with other engineers, analysts, and scientists to build highly scalable systems, to deliver delightful developer experiences and comprehensive interfaces 
Build the APIs that power internal stakeholder-facing UI experiences, defining composable data models and durable interfaces 
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack with an eye towards improving maintainability over the long term 
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

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.
8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, high-performance APIs and services 
You have implemented server-side APIs in dynamic languages like Ruby, working with document and relational datastores (especially Mongo and MySQL) and enjoy spelunking through new datasets (especially in systems like Redshift, Presto, or Trino).
Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build and have excellent oral and written communication
Experience proactively seeking feedback from users, teammates, and subject matter experts
The skills to build holistically — from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact and ability to balance speed, complexity, and scope in service of user needs
Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems 
Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.) 
Experience in marketing domain building products that contribute to marketing tech stack 
Experience with machine learning, recommender systems, product-led growth, or lifecycle marketing 
Prior experience building distributed systems or a microservices architecture