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 Payments Methods team owns one of
Stripe’s most critical workflows, a platform that processes billions of
dollars in payments annually. 

We see more and more payment methods coming to the Buy Now Pay Later,
Wallets, Bank Debits and Bank Transfers space. These provide more
benefits to merchants and enable functionality that was not present
before. These innovations are only increasing as new payment methods
come to market each month. The team is focused on increasing the
coverage and adoption of locally preferred payment methods for all our
users. This includes building the payment method platform and the
payment method integrations, and working on the adoption funnel to
increase usage.

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 both individual contributors and managers to become
  the next generation of leaders at Stripe. As a senior member on a new
  team, you will be looked to for guidance
  

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

• Have a strong technical background, including 5+ years of experience
  designing and engineering large-scale systems
  
• 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
  
• Care deeply about mentorship and growing engineers and managers
  
• 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.
  

Preferred qualifications

• 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.
  
• Served as the technical lead and defined the roadmap for complex
  projects spanning multiple teams and functions.