Staff Engineer Relocation offered
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Job Description
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 teams
As a Staff Software Engineer you will work with one of three different teams which include:
Verification and Identity Platform
The Verification and Identity Platform (VIP) team within the Risk organization is crucial for user onboarding and verification (KYC and KYB) at Stripe ensuring compliance throughout the merchant life cycle. We create a secure and userfriendly environment for identity verification utilizing an inhouse orchestration ecosystem to connect with thirdparty data services and regulatory bodies. Through automation of document collection and verification we enhance accuracy and efficiency while supporting Stripes compliance in a dynamic regulatory landscape.
Revenue and Financial Automation
The Revenue and Finance Automation (RFA) team at Stripe helps businesses streamline their cash flow management by integrating billing tax reporting and data services into a single modern suite. Our tools automate manual processes enhance accuracy and address inefficiencies in financial operations allowing finance leaders to focus on strategic growth. We continue to expand our offerings to meet the diverse needs of users from startups to public companies while investing in flexible solutions for future scalability.
Infrastructure
The Infrastructure engineering team ensures system reliability scale and performance while promoting productivity and positivity among our people. This includes managing data infrastructure across analytics streaming and search capabilities and utilizing popular opensource technologies like Trino/Presto and Elasticsearch. Youll engage with essential areas such as:
- Admin Platform: We enable teams to swiftly create secure and userfriendly internal products.
- Support Experience: We enhance our 24/7 support channels and optimize internal tools for user queries.
- Data Infrastructure: We support dataserving needs for highscale services processing hundreds of thousands of queries on petabytes of data through realtime streaming and batch pipelines.
What youll do
As a Staff Engineer you will serve as a tech lead and significantly contribute to the evolution of our platform at Stripe. Youll have the autonomy to make impactful decisions that enhance the reliability and security of our systems. Collaborating closely with engineering managers senior engineers and crossfunctional partners you will design and implement a technical architecture that supports scalability and delivers an exceptional user experience. Youll also play a key role in developing a suite of products that empower users to model and operate their businesses efficiently. Additionally youll help build and grow the team in India mentoring fellow engineers while actively participating in building essential systems. Join us in driving transformative change at Stripe.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Manage the technical roadmap for the Revenue and Finance Automation suite driving and leadership.
- 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.
- Engage with the opensource community to adopt new features and contribute back to OSS.
- Serve as a role model for maintaining consistency across various codebases and processes.
Who you are
This role is for you if you have a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; youre passionate about solving business problems and making direct impact on customers and you are comfortable dealing with lots of moving pieces and learning new technologies and systems.
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
- Experience: 10 years in software development demonstrating relevant domain expertise and proven leadership in companywide initiatives and technical roadmaps.
- Technical skills: Familiarity with distributed SQL engines (e.g. Trino) streaming systems (e.g. Kafka Flink) and search engines (e.g. OpenSearch/Elasticsearch). Proficient in writing highquality code primarily in Scala Java and JavaScript; however languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
- Collaboration: Strong crossfunctional skills fostering trust and alignment with stakeholders at all levels while driving effective decisionmaking.
- Generalist approach: Enjoy working across frontend backend infrastructure data pipelines or billing pipelines as needed to solve problems and delight our users (you dont need to be an expert in all of these but it helps to be interested in learning about them).
- Leadership and mentorship: Experience mentoring engineers and supporting their development while effectively providing and receiving constructive feedback.
- Adaptability: Ability to thrive in fastpaced ambiguous environments while maintaining a focus on user needs and business impact.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience: Held roles as a Staff Principal or Distinguished Engineer and owned the technical roadmap for a business area while leading projects across multiple engineering teams.
- Inspiration: Recognized as a source of inspiration for fellow engineers including those at senior levels.
- Industry experience: Worked in highgrowth environments similar to Stripe; experience building products for developers in customer support or on operations teams.
- Domain knowledge: Domain expertise in accounting or financial management is a plus but not required.
Relocation offered
If you are interested in living and working in India we provide relocation benefits and support. Your recruiting partner will be able to provide more information during the interview process.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
