Software Engineer, Internal Systems

What you'll do We're looking for Software Engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams — from Infrastructure to Product — at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain beautiful, robust, and high-performance APIs and services Ensure our infrastructure is extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets service-level agreements for both external and internal users Hide complexity from our users behind simple yet powerful abstractions Partner closely with other engineers, analysts, and scientists to build highly scalable systems, to deliver delightful developer experiences and comprehensive interfaces Build the APIs that power internal stakeholder-facing UI experiences, defining composable data models and durable interfaces Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack with an eye towards improving maintainability over the long term Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes 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 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, high-performance APIs and services You have implemented server-side APIs in dynamic languages like Ruby, working with document and relational datastores (especially Mongo and MySQL) and enjoy spelunking through new datasets (especially in systems like Redshift, Presto, or Trino). Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build and have excellent oral and written communication Experience proactively seeking feedback from users, teammates, and subject matter experts The skills to build holistically — from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact and ability to balance speed, complexity, and scope in service of user needs Preferred qualifications Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.) Experience in marketing domain building products that contribute to marketing tech stack Experience with machine learning, recommender systems, product-led growth, or lifecycle marketing Prior experience building distributed systems or a microservices architecture