Stripe is hiring a Software Engineer, Bridge in 8504 Bridge - R&D — San Francisco, NY, Seattle. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on stripe.com: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
Who we are
About Bridge
We're creating an entirely new payments platform, built with stablecoins, to simplify global money movement. Bridge enables faster, cheaper payments and borderless access to dollars via stablecoins.
We have a small team of people who have previously built financial infrastructure at some of the world's leading companies (Coinbase, Stripe, Square, Brex, Upstart, DoorDash, Airbnb), and each and every one of them chose Bridge because they fundamentally believe that stablecoins will be a critical piece of financial infrastructure that allows for the improvement of global money movement.
About the Role
Day-to-day scope for the Software Engineer, Bridge as described in the posting:
As an early member of the Bridge engineering team, you'll have the autonomy to work on projects that are truly global in scale and aim to give customers access to products they've never had access to. Many of the use cases that we work on today didn't exist several months ago, and that's because our team is dedicated to constant improvement for our partners and end users.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day scope for the Software Engineer, Bridge as described in the posting:
- Ship software to build out our suite of API products. We're an engineering and API-first company, and you'll learn first-hand and contribute towards building highly reliable, performant, and business-critical infrastructure serving thousands of developers across the globe.
- Take sole ownership of projects, oftentimes without the support of Product Management, and liaise both internally with teams like Legal and Compliance and externally with our partners and developers.
- Look for constant improvements to our product offerings with the explicit goal of improving the experience for our partners and end users.
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes for the team and our broader org.
Who you are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
The listing frames the Software Engineer, Bridge at Stripe as a hands-on product role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum Requirements
- We're open to hiring engineers at various levels of seniority (SWE through Senior Staff), but at a minimum we're looking for somebody with 5+ years of experience.
- Experience building backend systems with SQL databases. Experience with frameworks such as Rails, Django, Express, or equivalent is a bonus.
- An enlarged sense of ownership and the ability to lead and influence the design and direction of our products
- An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- A growth mindset, constant curiosity, and fearlessness to dive into the unknown
- An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation
Preferred Qualifications
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- Past experience working on crypto or financial products a plus, and while not required, we do look for people who are very passionate about building in this space
- Experience with building API products a plus, but not required
- Experience working with blockchain or distributed systems a big plus