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 current
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 Revenue & Financial Management group is building new products that
expand the scope of problems we tackle beyond payments into Revenue Management,
Financial Operations and analytics. Right now this includes products like
Billing, Invoicing, Revenue Recognition, Reconciliation and the underlying
platform for batch and real time processing of large scale financial data to
power these solutions. These solutions are going to be key pillars for Stripe’s
growing SaaS business and a major revenue stream.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
We’re looking for a Staff Engineer that will help architect and design this
system from ground up. You will need to set the technical direction across a
variety of projects and initiatives while also mentoring and growing others on
the team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Scope and lead large technical projects that are the foundational pillars for
Financial Data Management Infrastructure
* Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices
we make in building these products. In many cases, you will be the decider of
these decisions
* Directly contribute to core interface design and write code. Serve as a role
model for how great software should be written for Stripe as a whole
* Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best
practices, Stripe system realities, and numerous stakeholders’ preferences
and concerns
* Advise Stripe’s