Responsibilities

Scope, architect, and lead technical projects to build and scale distributed backend systems and APIs
Design, build, and maintain reliable, high-performance APIs and backend services
Own service reliability, including setting performance targets and driving improvements across the stack
Debug production issues across distributed services and multiple levels of the stack
Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, system performance, and a sustainable technical foundation
Teach and mentor engineers to grow into the next generation of leaders at Stripe
Partner with engineers and product managers across infrastructure and product teams to deliver well-integrated platform services

Requirements

5+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
Strong coding skills in any programming language
Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
Direct project leadership and mentorship experience
Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Familiarity with event-driven architectures
Experience with subscription management, usage-based billing, or financial reporting systems
Interest in financial infrastructure and how businesses manage their revenue operations