Software Engineer, Data & AI

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 ORGANIZATION

The Data Foundations team drives Data Engineering and Data Apps & Tooling work
across Stripe, enabling Stripes to leverage data to make informed decisions and
build user-centric products. We provide tools and infrastructure to move, store,
process, and analyze data, both at rest and in motion. 

* Revenue and Finance Automation- Revenue and Finance Automation (RFA) suite
gives businesses power over the entire life cycle of their cash flow. By
coordinating billing, tax, reporting, and data services in one modern stack,
Stripe’s revenue and finance automation suite eliminates the inefficiencies
of legacy finance tools and supports revenue growth.
* Data Engineering Solutions-  We are experts in data, working to make it
cost-effective, understandable, and trustworthy. We build pipelines
processing billions of events a day and are stewards of canonical data
warehouses and datasets delivering products for Stripe Users while embedding
with teams to build their data products.  We are experts in using the Stripe
Data Platform and to scale we lead the data culture and data education to
enable product teams to own their data. We invest in [AI] Data Ops to scale
incident handling and serve as an escalation path for data incidents to
minimize their impact. The Data Engineering Solutions team will work closely
with product teams delivering trustworthy data / backend code / and
innovative (AI) tools/platforms/services for data..  

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Software Engineer, you will design and build platforms, and system
solutions that are configurable and scalable around the globe. You will partner
with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on financial
platform systems, as well as direct user-facing business impact.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s
engineering teams.
* Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale.
* Maintain a collaborative environment, engaging in discussions and
decision-making processes with stakeholders within various domains 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

* 4+ years of experience in delivering, extending, and maintaining large scale
distributed systems.
* Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex
patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry.
* Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
* Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide
variety of technologies and systems.
* Think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high quality code. 
* You have great product taste and a track record of taking complex problems
and solving them elegantly.
* You are capable of working in ambiguous fast-moving environments and have a
curiosity to learn the domain to a deep level.
* Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Familiarity with large scale distributed systems.
* Experience working in high-growth teams similar to Stripe.
* If you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Preferred
qualifications are beneficial but not mandatory.