Full Stack Engineer, Web Presence and Platform

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

Web Presence and Platform (WPP) is organized into two pillars, each of which is grouped into pods that focus on the central tenets of Stripe's public mission. The Presence pillar creates industry-leading designs for Stripe's front door surfaces, educates customers about the power of our platform, and drives our business success. The Platform pillar builds the internal machinery that powers these surfaces, and is responsible for making our websites fast, stable, and easy to modify.

WPP offers exciting opportunities to have a major impact on Stripe's success, as stripe.com is often a user's first impression of the company, and the vast majority of signups come via the website. We'll apply data-driven rigor to our curiosity, and we'll come up with clever ways to get insight into important questions. We'll have the leeway to test out-of-the-box ideas alongside incremental ones. We'll apply Stripe's users-first mentality both internally and externally, crafting tangible productivity and quality-of-life improvements for colleagues while maintaining and elevating the quality of stripe.com.

What you'll do

As a software engineer, you'll design and build platforms and services that are configurable and scalable around the globe. You'll partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on infrastructure and platform systems and produce direct user-facing business impact.

Organizations is one of Stripe's biggest bets. You'll join a team with an ambitious and exciting goal at an early stage, with several opportunities to solve complex engineering problems at scale. If this sounds exciting, we'd love to speak with you.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and performant services and systems

Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems

Build and launch new capabilities and products that bring significant value to customers

Uphold our high engineering standards and elevate quality and engineering efficiency within our many codebases and processes

Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations

Debug production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack

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

Strong technical background, including 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer, with an affinity for building scalable backend infrastructure

Experience delivering, extending, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems

Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build

Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Ability to stitch together many different services even if you haven't worked with them before

Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones and good intuition for what is lasting and scalable

The skills to build holistically—from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact

Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from colleagues at all levels

Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers as their technical leader

Preferred qualifications

Fellow engineers feel they are able to learn from you, and you care deeply about mentoring others

Propensity to ask questions, assume good intentions, and default to transparency

You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers who join your team

You've worked to build pricing tooling that scales