Stripe is hiring a Software Engineer, Internal Systems in 7420 Finance Systems — Bengaluru, India. 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 Stripe
Company context from the listing:
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.
About the team
Company context from the listing:
Our mission is to enable effective financial decisions through reliable data, increased efficiency, and automation. We support Marketing, Sales, Seller, Accounting, Tax, Finance and Strategy (F&S), Finance Operations (FinOps), and Treasury functions across automation, data insights, and process improvements.
You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including
Seller Systems — Responsible for building the systems and tooling that make sellers and internal revenue teams at Stripe dramatically more productive and effective. We partner with Sales, Finance, Legal, and Product to deliver a single "plane of glass" selling experience that spans deal creation and modeling, negotiation and approvals, contracting, onboarding, and activation.
Finance Engineering — Responsible for building the robust and scalable infrastructure that powers the company's core financial operations, including payments processing, fund settlement, accounting, and business intelligence. The Finance Engineering team is at the core of Stripe to empower business-critical financial domains including Accounting, Finance operations, Finance and Strategy, and Treasury.
Marketing and Sales Systems — Responsible for building the most measurable, cross-channel messaging capability possible, to attract and engage customers. We do this through scalable motions, with the most relevant messaging and increasing reach of our marketing motions.
As part of the Marketing Systems team, you own systems that power go-to-market motions productizing gathered insights and intelligence. This includes building tools that 1/ power better digital experiences, 2/ accelerate customer journey with intelligent orchestrations, 3/ drive smarter decisions with CDP, and 4/ improve marketer and seller productivity.
What you'll do
Day-to-day scope for the Software Engineer, Internal Systems as described in the posting:
The listing frames the Software Engineer, Internal Systems at Stripe as a hands-on product role. 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
Day-to-day scope for the Software Engineer, Internal Systems as described in the posting:
- 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
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
The listing frames the Software Engineer, Internal Systems 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
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 8+ 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 and skills the team lists as required:
- 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