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 Optimized Checkout & Link team at Stripe builds best-in-class checkout experiences across web and mobile that delight consumers and streamline checkout flows for merchants. Based across North America, we're a diverse team who are deeply passionate about redefining the payment experience creating outstanding value for merchants, increasing revenue, lowering cost and growing their business. We work on Checkout, Payment Links, Elements, Payment Methods, and Link – each playing a crucial part in augmenting the economic landscape of the internet. Our days are filled with exciting challenges and collaborative problem-solving as we strive to simplify payment options, create unique business solutions and enhance checkout ease. Join us in crafting the future of digital commerce.

What you’ll do

As a full stack engineer working on Link, you’ll join a fast-moving team designing and building merchant experiences, consumer-facing UIs, and full-stack products. You’ll work with experienced engineers, product, design, and data science to deliver world-class solutions to end-users problems. Our team places a heavy emphasis on designing APIs and UIs, iterating rapidly on features, and working closely with our users. 

Responsibilities

• Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end.
  
• Craft new products and features that impact millions of people and businesses around the world 
  
• Explore creative opportunities for next-gen payments experiences that leverage the depth of Stripe’s payment technology. 
  
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and operations. 
  
• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
  
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter. 
  

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

• 6+ years of software development experience with 3+ years of full stack software development experience  
  
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and acting as a leader more broadly—leading by example and delivering critical feedback to uphold a high quality bar.
  
• Are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact.
  
• Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
  
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise.
  

Preferred qualifications

Experience with modern frontend technologies (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React) and building delightful user interfaces

• * Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale.
  
  • Appreciation for the importance of good documentation -- internal and external. 
    
  • Have an entrepreneurial mindset.
    
  • Have experience gathering and using data to analyze user behavior/intent to inform future product decisions. 
    
  • Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
    
  • Can put yourself in the shoes of your users and be a steward of crafting great experiences.