Backend / API Engineer, Money Movement - Payouts

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 Payouts team provides our users with the ability to access their money wherever and in whatever form they need to go about their business. This involves designing and building fullstack, delightful payouts experiences; elegantly handling the complexities of individual market’s quirks and regulation.  

What you’ll do

Backend Engineers at Stripe are comfortable working on new products under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations. 

Responsibilities

• Scope and lead technical projects, laying the groundwork for our products to iteratively evolve and scale
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
• Work with our partners to design and launch new features and capabilities
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Assess the optimal design and build a scalable and flexible infrastructure required for Stripe to maintain full compliance with Brazil receivables registration regulation

Who you are

The Payouts team is looking to build an  engineering cell whose goal will be to optimize Stripe’s merchant receivables registration integration in Brazil, building the infrastructure required for us to scale our business in the region. 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

• Speak both Portuguese and English fluently
• Have a strong technical background, including 3+ years of industry experience building high quality code and infrastructure
• Understand good practices of building and working with APIs
• Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code
  Internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team
• Care deeply about mentorship and growing engineers
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
• Thrive in a collaborative environment. 
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Sales and Support to better understand our customers’ needs, Legal and Accounting to understand how global policies influence our money-moving infrastructure, etc.
• [If Based in Brazil] Willing to relocate to either Dublin
• [If Based in Europe] Willing to travel as required to Brazil

Preferred qualifications

• Have experience of the Brazilian payments market especially merchant receivables especially building and/or maintaining integrations with merchant receivables registration chambers (CERC, CIP, TAG).
• Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products you build.
• Have experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets.