Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Our marketing systems team is on a mission to build the most measurable crosschannel messaging capability possible to attract and engage customers. We will do this through scalable motions with the most relevant messaging and increasing reach of our marketing motions. We are a cross functional team of engineers analysts marketers and product managers that deliver the insights internal systems and tools that fuel Stripes growth.
As part of the Marketing Systems team you will own systems that power gotomarket 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 4/ improve marketer and seller productivity.
What youll do
Responsibilities
- Design build and maintain beautiful robust and highperformance APIs and services
- Ensure our infrastructure is extensible scalable reliable and meets SLAs 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 system(s) 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
Were 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
- 10 years of experience designing implementing and operating largescale highperformance APIs and services For Staff role
- Lead largescale technical projects that significantly impact users and the business.
- Make informed decisions on technology and architecture serving as the primary decisionmaker.
- Contribute to core interface design and code exemplifying high standards of software quality.
- Navigate critical decisions by balancing software best practices system realities and stakeholder concerns.
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with engineering product and design teams to define product strategy and user experience.
- Establish best practices and processes to enhance team effectiveness and foster a culture of learning.
- Mentor engineers at all levels supporting their professional growth and technical leadership development.
- Own complex problems endtoend ensuring reliability and operability while considering business impact.
- Serve as a role model for maintaining consistency across various codebases and processes.
- 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
- The ability to balance speed complexity and scope in service of user needs
- You have excellent oral and written communication.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in marketing domain building products that contribute to marketing tech stack.
- Experience with machine learning recommender systems productled growth and/or lifecycle marketing.
- Prior experience building distributed systems or a microservices architecture
Required Experience:
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