Full Stack Engineer, Startup Products

Location: N/A

Department: 3710 Startup Product

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 Startup Products team builds Stripe Atlas and other products that help founders start and run a company, from anywhere in the world. We believe that startups are one of the most effective ways to solve the world's problems, and we want to give founders a running start — and keep them running. We help founders form their company, raise capital, execute critical legal agreements, access the internet's best tools, and automate operations while feeling ambitious, smart, and assured. Our goal is to create more startups that get to product-market fit, fast.

Our team is composed of high-agency, high-ownership product thinkers, who genuinely care about helping founders and making it easier to start and run a startup. Every person on the team is responsible for making our product the best it can be, and for ensuring our roadmap contains the highest impact ships for founders. 

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain, user-facing experiences, services, APIs, and systems
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Scrutinize, reason clearly, and make decisions about the technology and architecture choices we make in building these products
• Talk with and learn from our users (founders in the first days of starting their company)
• Debug production issues across services and 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

• 3+ years of software engineering experience 
• Enjoy being a generalist working on both the frontend and backend
• Care deeply about the user experience and take pride in building products to solve problems and delight users
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and partners: we work closely with designers, product managers, lawyers, and analysts
• Have a high quality bar, attention to detail, and helps teammates deliver polished products
• Want to own end-to-end product experiences: product design, architecture, writing lots of code, safely rolling out that code, and doing whatever is needed to ship products that help founders succeed

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with startups and the challenges founders face
• Prior experience with Ruby, Javascript/Typescript, React, and SQL
• Have a track record of building excellent products