Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
• Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers.
• Analyze product requirements, user needs and feedback and translate them into technical specifications and determine the feasibility of design, taking into account cost and time constraints.
• Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, and extensibility meet our quality standards.
• Act as the team’s representative during technical meetings, and understand how their systems interact with the broader landscape within the company.
• Mentor early-career engineers to help them grow and spin up into independent engineers.
• Construct core engineering tenets and design principles for their team’s projects.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of software developer or related work experience.
• 3 years of experience in each of the following:
  • Building software solutions using Ruby, Java, and Typescript;
  • Defining storage schemas for relational, document or columnar databases;
  • Querying data stores using SQL;
  • Building and integrating service endpoints using GRPC, REST, or GraphQL; and
  • Building systems integrated with event processing technologies including SQS or Kafka.

Compensation

Salary: $190,400 - $285,600/yr. Additional benefits: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.