Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction

Stripe•Seattle, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.
3 years of experience in building software solutions using Ruby, Java, and Typescript.
3 years of experience in defining storage schemas for relational, document or columnar databases.
3 years of experience in querying data stores using SQL.
3 years of experience in building and integrating service endpoints using GRPC, REST,or GraphQL.
3 years of experience in building systems integrated with event processing technologies including SQS or Kafka.

Responsibilities

Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers.
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.
Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, and extensibility meet our quality standards.
Act as the team’s representative during technical meetings, and understand how their systems interact with the broader landscape within the company.
Mentor early-career engineers to help them grow and spin up into independent engineers.
Construct core engineering tenets and design principles for their team’s projects.