About the role
<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</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</li> <li>Bu