Software Engineer, Data & AI

Who we are

About Stripe

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.

About the team

The Data Foundations team drives Data Engineering and Data Apps and Tooling work across Stripe, enabling Stripe employees to leverage data to make informed decisions and build user-centric products. We provide tools and infrastructure to move, store, process, and analyze data, both at rest and in motion.

Revenue and Finance Automation—The Revenue and Finance Automation (RFA) suite gives businesses power over the entire life cycle of their cash flow. By coordinating billing, tax, reporting, and data services in one modern stack, the Revenue and Finance Automation suite eliminates the inefficiencies of legacy finance tools and supports revenue growth.

Data Engineering Solutions—We are experts in data, working to make it cost-effective, understandable, and trustworthy. We build pipelines processing billions of events a day and are stewards of canonical data warehouses and datasets delivering products for Stripe users while embedding with teams to build their data products. We are experts in using the Stripe Data Platform and to scale we lead the data culture and data education to enable product teams to own their data. We invest in AI Data Ops to scale incident handling and serve as an escalation path for data incidents to minimize their impact. The Data Engineering Solutions team will work closely with product teams delivering trustworthy data, backend code, and innovative AI tools, platforms, and services for data.

What you’ll do

As a Software Engineer, you’ll design and build platforms and system solutions that are configurable and scalable around the globe. You’ll partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on financial platform systems, as well as direct user-facing business impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across engineering teams at Stripe.

• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large scale.

• Maintain a collaborative environment, engaging in discussions and decision-making processes with stakeholders within various domains at Stripe.

Who you are

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.

Minimum requirements

• 4+ years of experience in delivering, extending, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems

• Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns and practices, especially in the financial industry.

• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.

• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.

• Think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high-quality code.

• You have great product taste and a track record of taking complex problems and solving them elegantly.

• You are capable of working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and have a curiosity to learn the domain to a deep level.

• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems

• Experience working in high-growth teams similar to Stripe