Staff Engineer, Billing Engine

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 Stripe Billing team creates software tools which enable subscription-based businesses to build and operate recurring business models processing in aggregate billions of dollars per year. These tools are considered core components for the Stripe Billing product suite: a robust set of building blocks which may be combined in creative ways to run almost any type of business on Stripe.

We’re looking for someone who can drive the technical vision for our subscription APIs as we build the next generation of recurring billing abstractions.  Your work will enable new types of businesses to run on our platform, at greater scale, while maintaining an extremely high bar for reliability and usability.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous business impact at Stripe.
• Design and implement elegant APIs and their underlying infrastructure. Serve as a role model for software design and scalable systems architecture across Stripe.
• Work with other teams on Billing as well as stakeholders from Checkout, Connect, Terminal, and other key product teams to ensure the Subscriptions API works exceptionally well with other Stripe APIs.
• Advise Stripe’s leadership team on key technical considerations related to the future of subscription products and the unique requirements related to running a platform processing millions of renewals per day.
• Own problems from end to end, managing complexity and engaging directly with cross-functional stakeholders to think through everything from business impact, to reliability and operability, to the ease of integration, and the expressiveness of our product APIs.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Teach and mentor ICs and managers to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe

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

• You have a strong technical background, with experience in tech lead or staff level engineering roles.
• You have some experience developing technical roadmaps in large business areas, designing APIs, and consumer product development.
• You are customer focused and find satisfaction in building products to help others be more effective. You maintain a high degree of empathy for your users and seek feedback from them about your work.
• You enjoy modeling challenges and have a high bar for keeping your solutions expressive yet simple to use.
• You listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind.
• You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team. Even senior engineers feel they are able to learn from you. You care deeply about mentorship and growing engineers and managers. 
• You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale.