Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction at Stripe

<h2><strong>Who we are </strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.&nbsp;</li> <li>Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers.</li> <li>Analyze product requirements, user needs and feedback and translate them into technical specifications and determine the feasibility of design, taking into account cost and time constraints.</li> <li>Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, and extensibility meet our quality standards.</li> <li>Act as the team’s representative during technical meetings, and understand how their systems interact with the broader landscape within the company.</li> <li>Mentor early-career engineers to help them grow and spin up into independent engineers.</li> <li>Construct core engineering tenets and design principles for their team’s projects.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of software developer or related work experience.</li> <li>Must also have 3 years of experience in each of the following:</li> <li>Building software solutions using Ruby, Java, and Typescript;</li> <li>Defining storage schemas for relational, document or columnar databases;</li> <li>Querying data stores using SQL;</li> <li>Building and integrating service endpoints using GRPC, REST,or GraphQL; and</li> <li>Building systems integrated with event processing technologies including SQS or Kafka.</li> </ul> <p>Salary: $190,400 - $285,600/yr.</p> <p>This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.</p> <p>40 hrs/week</p> <p>50% Telecommuting Permitted.</p> <p><br>Multiple Positions Available.&nbsp;</p> <p>Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. <strong>WA03</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">#LI-DNI</span></p>