About the Company
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
Operator Tooling builds software that helps Stripe's operations teams spend less time on manual processes and more time on the work that needs their expertise. We replace spreadsheets, unstructured email chains, and repetitive tasks with tools that make operational work easier to manage and track.
Key Responsibilities
You'll build and improve the platforms Stripe's operations teams use to manage their work. Working across backend systems, you'll turn complex operational needs into reliable tools and integrations, partnering directly with internal users to understand their workflows and improve their experience.
- Own problems from end to end, managing complexity and working directly with stakeholders to understand business impact, reliability, and operability
- Contribute to the product roadmap, help shape the team's vision and strategy, and act as a sounding board for team leadership
- Uphold Stripe's high standards for engineering and product quality
- Mentor newer team members and help them develop their engineering skills
- Work with stakeholders across Stripe to understand competing needs and balance priorities
Candidate Profile & Mindset
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
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Comfort working across backend systems, with an understanding of the full software development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing and deployment
- Ability to write high-quality, thoroughly tested code with clear documentation and appropriate production observability, following best practices in engineering, security, and design
- Empathy for internal and external users and a commitment to improving their experience
- Proven ability to integrate different services and processes, including those you haven't worked with before
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby, Java, Python, or Go; we value general engineering skills more than knowledge of a particular language or framework, and languages can be learned on the job
- Knowledge of distributed systems patterns and principles
About Stripe
Stripe, founded in 2010 by Patrick and John Collison in South San Francisco and Dublin, builds financial infrastructure for the internet. Its APIs let millions of businesses accept payments, manage subscriptions, prevent fraud with Radar, and move money with Connect and Treasury. Valued at $65B+ after its 2024 rounds and processing over $1T annually, Stripe is the default for marketplaces, SaaS and AI startups. In Web3, Stripe's crypto on-ramps and USDC payouts bridge traditional checkout with on-chain treasury. Teams emphasize written clarity, rigorous productcraft and owning money movement that must work every time. In addition to global payments infrastructure, Stripe invests heavily in crypto developer tools, USDC stablecoin settlement rails, and automated merchant payouts.