Software Engineer, Financial Business Insights
Stripe · Posted Oct 23
Online payment processing, billing, and financial infrastructure services
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About the role
The Financial Business Insights organization supports Marketing, Sales, Seller, Accounting, Tax, Finance and Strategy, Finance Operations, and Treasury functions through reliable data, automation, and process improvements, spanning Seller Systems, Finance Engineering, and Marketing and Sales Systems teams. The team builds services, APIs, integrations, data pipelines, and internal UIs for use cases including deal modeling and pricing engines, approval orchestration, accounting automation, financial analytics, and financial business intelligence. This role designs and operates high-performance, scalable APIs and services, working with Ruby, document and relational datastores such as MongoDB and MySQL, and large datasets in systems like Redshift, Presto, or Trino.
What you will do
- Design, build, and maintain beautiful, robust, and high-performance APIs and services
- Ensure our infrastructure is extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets service-level agreements 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 systems, 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ 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) and enjoy spelunking through new datasets (especially in systems like Redshift, Presto, or Trino).
- Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build and have excellent oral and written communication
- 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 and ability to balance speed, complexity, and scope in service of user needs
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and 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, or lifecycle marketing
- Prior experience building distributed systems or a microservices architecture
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Stripe
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet, providing payment processing and financial services software for businesses of all sizes. Millions of companies use its suite of products to accept online and in-person payments, manage revenue, and run operations globally.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $9.81B raised
- 2023-03-26Series I$6.5B
- 2023-04-01Grant$11.1M
- 2024-04-08Secondary Market$694M
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
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