Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · PERM, United States · PERM

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. This role focuses on building and maintaining APIs, services, and large-scale systems for money movement, designing next-generation products, and mentoring engineers. It requires experience with various programming languages, databases, and event processing technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
  2. Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers.
  3. 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.
  4. Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, and extensibility meet our quality standards.
  5. Act as the team’s representative during technical meetings, and understand how their systems interact with the broader landscape within the company.

Skills

Required

  • Ruby
  • Java
  • Typescript
  • Relational databases
  • Document databases
  • Columnar databases
  • SQL
  • GRPC
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • SQS
  • Kafka

What the JD emphasized

  • 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.
  • 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.