Backend Engineer, Infrastructure

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 Organization

We provide leveraged and usable infrastructure for Stripes to explore innovative, new products while concurrently extending secure, reliable and cost-effective mature business lines.

Our mission is to:

• Enable Stripe product teams to rapidly build new products, and quickly iterate on existing products, to drive value for our users and Stripe.
• Provide Stripes product teams a secure, performant, and efficient platform for creating and maintaining their products and services.
• Enable Stripes engineers to build scalable applications with high speed, quality and performance.
• Enable Stripes largest users to scale their businesses on Stripe.

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

• Developer Infrastructure - We are responsible for making Stripes developers happy and productive. We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to accelerate Stripe engineering as Stripe scales. Youll collaborate closely with partner teams in Europe, such as CI Infra and CI Services, Test Environments and Frameworks, as well as partner teams based in the US who provide language specific tooling for Engineers who develop in any of Stripes supported languages (Ruby, Java, Golang, Python, and more).

• Compliance Foundations - Internal Controls Engineering owns systems and tools to measure and increase operational efficiency of all internal controls throughout Stripe. We build tools for owners of financial, business, and technology controls. We are part of a larger Compliance Foundations engineering organization, and work closely with our partner engineering teams to increase efficiency and predictability of compliance.

• Internal Developer Toolings - The team is responsible for accelerating Stripes developers and providing a positive experience. We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to enhance Stripe's engineering as it scales. The team has three main areas of responsibility. Our mission encompasses optimizing day-to-day engineering work in regards to our QA infrastructure, advancing the capabilities of the Synthetics tool, and facilitating effective service-to-service testing. Through these efforts, we aim to improve the reliability of Stripe's systems and platforms, enhance the quality of deliverables, and ultimately foster a more efficient and innovative development process.

• High Performance Operations (HPO) - The HPO team builds scalable solutions to safeguard Stripes financial ecosystem. We enable help manage 7,000 agents to make data-driven decisions by designing and optimizing internal workflows that ensure compliance, security, and operational efficiency. We tackle complex challenges in fraud detection, risk mitigation, and policy enforcement across Stripes financial infrastructure. Our work prevents illicit activities such as fraud, illegal transactions, and financial abuse.

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

• Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure.
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe.
• Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack.

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

• Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above.
• 2 years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structure and algorithms.
• Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration skills, can work across work streams within your team and contribute to your peers success.
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome.
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Python, Java, Go, Javascript, C#, Go, PHP, Kotlin, Ruby, C ).
• Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems.
• Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external.
• Holds 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

Stripe does not yet include pay ranges in job postings in every country. Stripe strongly values pay transparency and is working toward pay transparency globally.

Locations - Office Locations

• Bucharest

Team

Infrastructure & Corporate Tech

Job Type

Full time

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