Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
• Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers.
• 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.
• Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, and extensibility meet our quality standards.
• Act as the team's representative during technical meetings, and understand how their systems interact with the broader landscape within the company.
• Mentor early-career engineers to help them grow and spin up into independent engineers.
• Construct core engineering tenets and design principles for their team's projects.

Requirements

• 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
• 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.
• Must also have 3 years of experience in each of the following:
• Building software solutions using Ruby, Java, and Typescript;
• Defining storage schemas for relational, document or columnar databases;
• Querying data stores using SQL;
• Building and integrating service endpoints using GRPC, REST,or GraphQL; and
• Building systems integrated with event processing technologies including SQS or Kafka.
• Salary: $190,400 - $285,600/yr.
• This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.
• 40 hrs/week
• 50% Telecommuting Permitted.
• Multiple Positions Available.
• Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA03
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