Backend Engineer, Payouts Speed

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 Speed team builds products to allow users to move money from their Stripe account to external destinations at faster-than-default speeds. Moving funds reliably and on-time is of the utmost importance to our users and we play a critical role ensuring Stripe remains the industry standard in this respect. We are part of the Money Movement organization  - working toward a future in which all of the complexity that comes with handling money (e.g. accepting different currencies, adopting new payment methods, integrating with hundreds of banks globally) is hidden from Stripe’s users. It is core to Stripe’s business and thousands of developers will use our platform and infrastructure to create valuable products and services that billions of people use.

Our team works with several other engineering teams, user representatives,  treasurers, accountants, and lawyers across Stripe to build solutions that make it easy to move funds quickly, reliability, and cheaply anywhere across the globe. Ultimately, our goal is to increase the GDP of the internet by increasing the velocity of money through the financial system..

The Payouts Speed team is currently looking for Software Engineers who want to make an impact on how money will move at a global scale. The team builds user-facing products that leverage money transfers rails to optimize characteristics like speed, currency and cost.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain platform APIs, services, dashboards, and user interfaces to  that allow users to manage their money efficiently
• Apply a detail-oriented mindset to dissect information, analyze data, and detect patterns that lead to cost savings
• Design, build, and maintain platform APIs, services, dashboards, and user interfaces to  efficiently add, monitor and maintain cost-efficient payments
• Help debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Mentor engineers earlier in their technical careers to help them grow
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes

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

• A strong technical background, including 5+ years of software engineering or a similar experience
• Familiarity with the full life cycle of software development, from design and implementation to testing and deployment
• Strong coding skills for building high performance services
• Strong analytical capability especially in modeling complex business flows and turning the business requirements into programmatic artifacts such as data models, algorithms, and API designs 
• 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.

Preferred qualifications

•  Prior knowledge in financial technology space, particularly in payment processing or financial regulatory compliance