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

The Cost team is responsible for building and maintaining Stripe's
platform for predicting and understanding payment costs, and the
initiatives built around this platform. These initiatives include
world-class payments billing including 'Cost+' pricing which enables
new businesses to be built on top of Stripe, identifying cost
optimizations and improvement opportunities for Stripe’s users, and
enabling partner teams to analyze and drive down costs for users and for
Stripe.

The Cost Optimization Team helps our users and Stripe understand their
payment costs, and optimize these costs by building solutions that
intelligently improve payment cost performance.

What you’ll do

Engineers on the team have the opportunity to expand the reach of
Stripe’s global payments network, design and implement novel payment
cost improvement solutions, and deliver best-in-class reliability and
performance. This team has a direct impact on merchants and Stripe’s
business.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design and implement highly performant hybrid transaction
  processing solutions for large scale financial data
  
• Apply a detail-oriented mindset to dissect information, analyze data,
  and detect patterns that lead to cost savings
  
• Design, build, and maintain platform APIs, services, dashboards, and
  user interfaces to  efficiently add, monitor and maintain
  cost-efficient payments
  
• Help debug and solve critical production issues across services and
  multiple levels of the stack
  
• Mentor engineers earlier in their technical careers to help them grow
  
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the
  company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal
  engineering standards, tooling, and processes
  

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

• A strong technical background, including 2+ years of software
  engineering or a similar experience
  
• Familiarity with the full life cycle of software development, from
  design and implementation to testing and deployment
  
• Strong coding skills in Java or related languages for building high
  performance services
  
• Strong analytical capability especially in modeling complex business
  flows and turning the business requirements into programmatic
  artifacts such as data models, algorithms, and API designs
  

Preferred qualifications

• Prior knowledge in financial technology space, particularly in payment
  processing
  
• Experience in Machine Learning or data analytics