Software Engineer
Overview
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.
Job Description
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Developer Infra group is responsible for making Stripe’s developers happy and productive. The Python infrastructure team works on both developer infrastructure and language-specific tooling to support Stripe’s engineers.
Responsibilities
- - Work with a team of technically sophisticated engineers who make developer experience their first priority
- - Solve problems for fellow Stripe engineers by understanding their needs and coming up with both short term and long term solutions
- - Use both qualitative and quantitative metrics to determine priorities and measure effectiveness
- - Deliver practical, useful, and reliable tools, processes, and code refactorings to Stripe engineers
- - Work with stakeholders across Stripe to balance and accommodate competing desires
Required Skills
- - 3+ years of professional, full-time software development experience
- - Either deep Python language knowledge, or experience building tools to improve productivity with empathy for the end user
- - Experience writing high quality code in a major programming language, preferably Python, Ruby, Java, or Go
- - A background supporting engineer focused tools
- - Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a collaborative environment
- - Demonstrated ability in language tooling and runtimes
- - Experience working with hermetic build systems, such as Bazel
- - Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
Benefits
- - Equity
- - Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
- - Retirement plans
- - Health benefits
- - Wellness stipends
About the company
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. Stripe is a platform for commercial finance infrastructure. Stripe is used by millions of businesses, ranging from the biggest corporations in the world to the most ambitious startups, to take payments, increase revenue, and open up new business prospects.
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