Backend Engineer, Developer Experience & Product Platform

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

The API Lifecycle team is building the systems that power Stripes internal and public APIs. Were looking for people that are passionate about distilling complexity across a breadth of problems and that strive in high impact environments. We aim to create new tools and experiences that can solve hard problems for our usersboth internal and external developers.

For this role we are looking for an engineer that will build the foundation tooling framework and automation required to improve Stripes API lifecycle (available via new API versions SDKs Dashboard and other surfaces). These responsibilities will require that the candidate partners closely with a Release Manager and with various teams including SDK teams product developers docs engineers and a host of other stakeholders.

What youll do

Responsibilities

• Help define and shape the release process for Stripes public API infrastructure
• Build the platform and tooling necessary to enable smooth and automated rollout of API changes across their end-to-end lifecycle
• Ensure our APIs are secure reliable and performant
• Solve product problems and build delightful API and developer experiences for our users
• Work across different products tech stacks and programming languages
• Turn ambiguous problems that our developer users are facing into
  concrete products from proposal to kick-off to building and launching
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities user experience and a sustainable technical foundation
• Collaborate mentor and provide support to other team members

Who you are

Were looking for software engineers with experience building APIs and scalable distributed systems in service based architecture.

The preferred qualifications are a bonus not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 3 years in engineering across a wide range of products
• Demonstrated experience of leading initiatives across large
  engineering organizations spanning multiple teams and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence tech roadmap planning and execution
• A strong passion for API design and amazing developer experiences
• Thrives in a collaborative environment involving different functions
  stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Solve problems autonomously; ability to research a technical or product domain and apply your knowledge when designing and scoping projects
• Attention to detail especially around performance accessibility reliability and security

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with multiple languages (Ruby Go Java)
• Strong demonstrated writing abilities both in terms of documentation
  intended for end-users and executive/strategic comms intended to drive the team direction
• You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
• Previous industry experience managing software releases