Software Engineer, Internal Systems

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 

Our mission is to enable effective financial decisions through reliable data,
increased efficiency and automation. We support Marketing, Sales, Seller,
Accounting, Tax, Finance & Strategy (F&S), Finance Operations (FinOps) and
Treasury functions across Automation, Data insights and process improvements.

You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including: 

Seller Systems: Responsible for building the systems and tooling that make
Stripe’s sellers and internal revenue teams dramatically more productive and
effective. We partner with Sales, Finance, Legal, and Product to deliver a
single “plane of glass” selling experience that spans deal creation and
modeling, negotiation and approvals, contracting, onboarding, and activation.
The Seller Systems team composes first‑party, custom Stripe components with
best‑in‑class third‑party business systems to deliver configurable, auditable,
and globally scalable workflows. Engineers on Seller Systems build services,
APIs, integrations, data pipelines, and internal UIs that power seller
productivity, reduce time‑to‑activation, improve deal velocity, and enable
AI‑driven assistive workflows. Use cases include deal modeling and pricing
engines, approval and orchestration platforms, CLM/CPQ integrations, onboarding
automation, seller analytics, and AI‑assisted seller tooling.

Finance Engineering: Responsible for building the robust and scalable
infrastructure that powers the company's core financial operations, including
payments processing, fund settlement, accounting, and business intelligence. The
Finance Engineering team is at the core of Stripe to empower mission-critical
financial domains including Accounting, Finance operations, Finance & Strategy,
and Treasury. Engineers on the Financial Engineering team build platforms, data
pipelines, and financial products for the Finance team. The use cases include
financial analytics and insights, accounting automation, auditing, financial
planning & forecasting, and financial business intelligence. 

Marketing/Sales Systems: Responsible for building the most measurable,
cross-channel messaging capability possible, to attract and engage customers. We
will do this through scalable motions, with the most relevant messaging and
increasing reach of our marketing motions. We are a cross functional team of
engineers, analysts, marketers, and product managers that deliver the insights,
internal systems and tools that fuel Stripe’s growth. 

As part of the Marketing Systems team, you will own systems that power
go-to-market motions productizing gathered insights and intelligence. This
includes building tools that 1/ power better digital experiences, 2/ accelerate
customer journey with intelligent orchestrations 3/ drive smarter decisions with
CDP 4/ improve marketer and seller productivity.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

We’re looking for Software Engineers who want to make an impact on managing
money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You’ll play
a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a
new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike. Our
team collaborates with many cross-functional teams – from Infrastructure to
Product –  at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user
needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Design, build, and maintain beautiful, robust, and high-performance APIs and
services
* Ensure our infrastructure is extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets SLAs
for both external and internal users
* Hide complexity from our users behind simple yet powerful abstractions
* Partner closely with other engineers, analysts and scientists to build highly
scalable system(s), to deliver delightful developer experiences and
comprehensive interfaces
* Build the APIs that power internal stakeholder facing UI experiences,
defining composable data models and durable interfaces.
* Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack with
an eye towards improving maintainability over the long term.
* Improve 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

* 7-12 years of experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale,
high-performance APIs and services 
* You have implemented server-side APIs in dynamic languages like Ruby, working
with document and relational datastores (especially Mongo and MySQL).
* You enjoy spelunking through new datasets (especially in systems like
Redshift or Presto/Trino).
* Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build
* Experience proactively seeking feedback from users, teammates, and subject
matter experts
* The skills to build holistically – from specs and documentation to
implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact
* The ability to balance speed, complexity, and scope in service of user needs
* You have excellent oral and written communication.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
* Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g.
gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.) 
* Experience in marketing domain building products that contribute to marketing
tech stack.
* Experience with machine learning, recommender systems, product-led growth,
and/or lifecycle marketing.
* Prior experience building distributed systems or a microservices architecture