Staff Engineer, Billing

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

In this role youll be joining a small focused team with a large mandate: enabling businesses and Stripes to extend Stripe Billing exactly to their needs. Our users accomplish the vast majority of their goals with what Stripe Billing provides out of the box but when they need to tailor billing logic to their unique business model this team provides the tools and capabilities to do it.

We are in the early stages of building an extensibility platform for Stripe Billing and are working toward general availability. Our work unlocks enterprise customers with complex bespoke billing requirements directly contributing to Stripes mission of increasing the GDP of the internet.

• Our team brings extensibility to Stripes Billing products enabling merchants to customize billing logic from discount calculations to invoicing workflows through user-authored scripts and orchestration of Billing primitives
• We collaborate closely with Billing domain teams and Stripes Extensibility platform teams to identify and build high-leverage extension points across the billing engine
• We have shipped at Stripe Sessions two years in a row most recently launching five new extension capabilities along with script upload and observability tooling; you can explore our public docs at youll do

  As a Staff Engineer on the team youll own the technical direction of our extensibility platform and play a central role in how we grow from early adoption to general availability. Youll work closely with other Billing domain teams to identify where extensibility creates the most value partnering with them to build those capabilities into their products as first-class features not afterthoughts.

  This is a high-autonomy high-ownership role on a team that is actively shaping a new product area at Stripe. Youll navigate novel engineering challenges including how to safely execute user-authored logic inside Stripes billing engine and establish the technical patterns the rest of the team builds on. Youll also be a key voice in cross-functional conversations with Billing leadership and Extensibility platform teams as we scale adoption from early customers to a broadly available product.

  Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the technical architecture of Billings extensibility platform setting patterns and standards that scale across teams
  • Identify high-leverage extension points across Stripes billing system and partner with Billing domain teams to build them into their products as extensible first-class features
  • Own end-to-end technical solutioning for complex novel problems from initial design through production delivery in an evolving product environment
  • Build resilient systems that handle failures gracefully including novel failure modes introduced by user-authored logic running inside Stripes billing engine
  • Drive adoption of Billings extension capabilities by external customers and internal Billing teams iterating based on real-world usage
  • Collaborate with Billing leadership product managers and Extensibility platform teams to define and execute the teams technical roadmap
  • Mentor engineers on the team and raise the technical bar through design reviews code reviews and hands-on collaboration

  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

  • 12 years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of leading large complex software projects that span multiple teams and organizations
  • Experience as a technical lead on a team building external-facing products for customers
  • Deep software architecture knowledge including distributed systems service-oriented architecture and resilient system design
  • Demonstrated ability to build alignment and drive large initiatives forward across organizational boundaries without direct authority
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills including producing clear technical documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences

  Preferred qualifications

  • Experience in fintech payments or billing systems
  • Platform engineering experience building tools abstractions or frameworks for use by internal engineering teams
  • Background in domain-driven design or building extensible systems (e.g. plugin architectures programmable platforms or scriptable workflows)
  • Experience iterating on an early-stage product from initial adoption through growth including hardening a system for production at scale

  Pay and Benefits

  The range listed on this page is the roles annual base salary range. This range may vary depending on the candidates location. For sales roles the range provided is the roles On Target Earnings (OTE) range meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors including the candidates experience qualifications and location. Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed on this page will vary depending on the applicants location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.