Staff Engineer, Money Movement and Storage

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 Money Movement organization is 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. 

The Banking Integrations organization builds the physical layer for money movement, interacting with numerous global payment schemes to achieve our objectives.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader that can work cross-functionally on a number of large initiatives, help steer the product roadmap, improve our operational posture by systems and process improvements, and act as a guide and mentor for other engineers on the team.

Responsibilities

• Advise Stripe leadership on key technology and product roadmap considerations
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses.
• As a leader within Engineering, assist with organizational growth and development while maintaining a high bar for excellence and technical curiosity.
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase 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

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years as a staff / principal engineer, architect, tech lead or equivalent role
• Proven track record of building large scale, complex distributed systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions
• Demonstrated ability to balance execution and velocity with security, reliability, and efficiency
• Experience mentoring, and investing in the development of other engineers

Preferred qualifications

• • Experience building systems that interact with and modulate partners
  • Experience in financial world
  • Experience building or interacting with B2B payment schemes