Staff Engineer, Capital Engineering
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Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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
Stripe Capital is building the financial infrastructure that powers fast flexible financing for businesses. We serve two distinct audiences: businesses directly using Stripe who need capital to grow and Connect platforms that want to offer financing to their own users through Capital for Platforms.
Our Engineering team builds the entire ecosystem that makes this possible. From automated underwriting models the application and servicing experiences to the repayment flows that automatically withhold funds from sales. We operate at the intersection of complex financial constraints technical scale and a user-centric product.
What youll do
We are seeking an experienced technical leader to define and drive the evolution of Stripe Capitals technical and product vision. You will operate at the intersection of engineering product and strategy helping the organization navigate the technical trade-offs inherent in building a global lending business. Whether you are leading the technical expansion into new geographies or building abstractions to enable entirely new products and operating models your decisions will shape the future of Capital. Winning in this space requires solving uniquely challenging technical problems; balancing growth and resiliency with long-term requirements of a global financial product.
Responsibilities
- Drive Technical Strategy: Define the long-term architectural vision for Capitals systems ensuring our technical roadmap aligns with ambitious business goals while maintaining system health and agility.
- Architect for Scale: Design the abstractions and systems required to scale Capital across countries partners and entirely new product shapes.
- Ensure System Reliability: Lead initiatives to improve the durability auditability and correctness of our financial systems ensuring they remain performant and resilient in the face of very rapid growth.
- Force-multiply the organization: Mentor senior engineers foster a culture of technical rigor and collaborate across functions like Product Legal and Partnerships to navigate the trade-offs inherent in a high-growth financial business.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with Product Legal Treasury and external financial partners to translate ambiguous business requirements into clear scalable engineering roadmaps.
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 hands-on backend experience building large-scale distributed systems
- Proven track record of building large scale complex distributed systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions
- Excellent technical communication skills; you can articulate complex architectural trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders (including external partners).
- Strong collaboration skills to work effectively directly with partners and across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Past experience mentoring and investing in the development of engineers.
- A user-first mindset; you care deeply about the product experience and the users who rely on the systems you build.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in Fintech Lending or complex Financial Systems. Specific experience with money movement architecture (ledgers reconciliation funds flow) an additional plus.
- A history of building or managing complex partner integrations (APIs data exchange standards).
- Experience navigating the trade-offs between speed of delivery and long-term architectural purity in a high-growth environment.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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