Stripe is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, API Platform in 8186 Service Platform — San Francisco, 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 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:
The API Platform team is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing our payment systems, fraud detection, and a multitude of other products. As an infrastructure team, you will build and expand the service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable.
What you’ll do
Day-to-day scope for the Staff Software Engineer, API Platform as described in the posting:
You will join as a Technical Lead for one of the most impactful teams at Stripe. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs, and advance service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption at Stripe.
We are a highly effective team that consistently delivers high-impact results while genuinely caring for one another. We expect you to bring your curiosity and critical thinking skills to this challenging domain.
The listing frames the Staff Software Engineer, API Platform at Stripe as a hands-on product role. We would love to hear from you whether you have spent your entire career in infrastructure or are looking to apply your skill set to the database engineering domain for the first time.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day scope for the Staff Software Engineer, API Platform as described in the posting:
- Lead a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
- Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision
- Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user needs
- Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
- Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure's key engineering initiatives
- Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture and design, vision, direction, and requirements setting, and incident response processes) for team members
- Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe's services roadmap
- Build a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team
Who you are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
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.
Minimum requirements
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 12+ years of technical experience
- 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role
- Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g., building internal or external developer products)
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers
- Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth
- Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding
- Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
- Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication
- Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to a high level of psychological safety for all team members and partners
- Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go)
Preferred qualifications
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide)
- Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc.)
- Experience leading partially remote and distributed teams
- Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs
- Experience building serverless platforms
- Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on-call rotations
We don't expect deep expertise in every dimension above, but genuine curiosity about any of the areas that are less familiar is important to us