Backend Engineer

Job Description

Who we are About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Commerce Systems Automation and Acceleration (CSAA) team at Stripe is dedicated to revolutionizing the company's financial ecosystem through innovative automation solutions. Our mission is to empower Stripe's financial operations by streamlining and optimizing critical processes such as invoicing, revenue recognition, fund flow, and e-invoicing. By developing cutting-edge technologies, we aim to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability across Stripe's financial landscape, ultimately enabling the company to deliver seamless financial experiences to its users while maintaining compliance in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

One of our key focuses is achieving Unified Global Invoicing Excellence, where we simplify and streamline invoicing processes across all geographies, developing a flexible and scalable platform that adapts to local regulations. This automation allows us to create a unified user experience for generating, sending, and managing invoices globally, significantly reducing manual work and errors while improving overall user satisfaction.

Another crucial aspect of our team's work is Expedited Delivery with Regulatory Compliance for Revenue Recognition. We are committed to accelerating the implementation of revenue recognition processes while ensuring full compliance with local and international accounting standards. Our team is developing a system that can quickly adapt to changing regulatory requirements, creating automated checks and balances to maintain accuracy while increasing speed. This enables Stripe to confidently navigate complex regulatory landscapes while delivering timely and accurate financial reporting, which in turn unblocks the expansion of the Commerce Systems suite. Through our efforts in both global invoicing and revenue recognition, we strive to solidify Stripe's position as a leader in financial technology and support its mission to increase the GDP of the internet, allowing for quick addition of new commercial constructs and enhancing Stripe's overall capabilities.

What youll do

You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services.
• Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers.
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.

Who you are

Were 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

• Professional experience in a software development role.
• Experience using one of the major cloud providers.
• A strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems.
• Experience with operational excellence.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems.
• Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production.

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50 PERCENT of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80 PERCENT in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100 PERCENT from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is 83, ,800. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the roles On Target Earnings (OTE) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidates experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicants location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

Locations - Office locations

• Dublin HQ

Team

Infrastructure & Corporate Tech

Job type

Full time

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