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Staff Software Engineer, CAP

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 Compartments and Accounts Platform (CAP) team is the source of truth for all Stripe merchants and connections information — all Stripe API traffic passes through our services. We build highly scalable and reliable services that ensure Stripe provides best-in-class availability and latency, with the ability to handle hundreds of thousands of requests per second.

Users have historically had to create a new Stripe account for each global entity or business unit. The CAP team crafted Organizations to allow businesses to manage all their Stripe accounts in one place. As Stripe grows its suite of product offerings beyond payments, Organizations unlocks a new phase of growth by enabling our platforms and businesses to model their complex businesses and distribute all Stripe products to their end users. This team is responsible for evolving the platform that powers Stripe Organizations and is also in the unique position of delivering products that use this platform, including Payments, Terminal, Connect, and more.

What you'll do

We're evolving our architecture to support the next ten years of growth, and you'll make some of the most significant technical decisions for the company. We're looking for technical leaders who are excited to work across these domains, driving the technical vision for how Stripe will both build these foundations and build on top of them to deliver higher-level products for our users.

Responsibilities

  • Create a long-term technical vision for the org, and identify paths to deliver value in incremental phases
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and performant services and systems
  • Make significant hands-on contributions to deliver critical projects and bring value to customers
  • Lead by example to uphold high engineering standards, and elevate quality and engineering efficiency across Stripe
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including product, design, infrastructure, and operations
  • Mentor and coach both individual contributors and managers to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe

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

  • This is a Staff-level role — that typically means 10+ years of experience building, operating, and evolving large-scale, high-performance APIs and services
  • Deep experience with distributed computing systems
  • An empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build
  • Open communication skills, verbal and written — asking questions, assuming good intentions, and defaulting to transparency
  • A love for helping those around you grow and learn, and for working with those who do the same
  • Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and good intuition for what is lasting and scalable
  • The desire to proactively seek feedback from users, teammates, and subject matter experts
  • The tools to build holistically — from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact
  • The ability to balance speed, complexity, and scope in service of user needs

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience designing and building distributed systems or a microservices architecture
  • Prior experience building services in Java, Ruby, or related languages

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $224,000 - $336,000. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations

Seattle, New York, or South San Francisco HQ

Remote locations

Remote in United States

Team

Platform

Job type

Full time

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We look forward to hearing from you

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.