Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction

Stripe
Seattle, US
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Best suited to mid-level engineers with expertise in Ruby, Java, and Typescript working on financial infrastructure systems that require handling billions of transactions.

Best fit for

  • Engineers who thrive in designing large-scale financial systems.
    — “build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
  • Candidates with proven mentorship capabilities for early-career engineers.
    — “Mentor early-career engineers to help them grow and spin up into independent engineers
  • Developers experienced with event processing technologies like Kafka.
    — “Building systems integrated with event processing technologies including SQS or Kafka

Things to consider

  • 50% telecommuting permitted, requiring partial in-office presence.
    — “50% Telecommuting Permitted
  • Must have 3 years of experience with specific technologies.
    — “Must also have 3 years of experience in each of the following

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate experience in designing extensible APIs and backward compatibility.
    — “Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility
  • Highlight projects involving relational and document databases.
    — “Defining storage schemas for relational, document or columnar databases
  • Showcase leadership in technical meetings and cross-team collaboration.
    — “Act as the team’s representative during technical meetings
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • Successfully launched APIs and services
  • Improved system reliability and efficiency
  • Mentored early-career engineers
Typical background
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field3+ years of software development experience

Skills & requirements

Required

RubyJavaTypeScriptSQLGRPCRESTGraphQLKafkaSQSAPI DesignService IntegrationSystem Design

Preferred

MentorshipTechnical Leadership

Stack & domain

RubyJavaTypeScriptSQLGrpcRestGraphQLSqsKafka

About the role

Original posting from Stripe

Who we are

About Stripe

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.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests. 

Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers.

Analyze product requirements, user needs and feedback and translate them into technical specifications and determine the feasibility of design, taking into account cost and time constraints.

Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, and extensibility meet our quality standards.

Act as the team’s representative during technical meetings, and understand how their systems interact with the broader landscape within the company.

Mentor early-career engineers to help them grow and spin up into independent engineers.

Construct core engineering tenets and design principles for their team’s projects.

Who you are

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

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of software developer or related work experience.

Must also have 3 years of experience in each of the following:

Building software solutions using Ruby, Java, and Typescript;

Defining storage schemas for relational, document or columnar databases;

Querying data stores using SQL;

Building and integrating service endpoints using GRPC, REST,or GraphQL; and

Building systems integrated with event processing technologies including SQS or Kafka.

Salary: $190,400 - $285,600/yr.

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting Permitted.

Multiple Positions Available. 

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA03

 

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Source: Stripe careers

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