Software Engineer, Payments & Risk

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use 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 everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. Optimized Checkout and Link teams work to create best-in-class checkout experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and drive merchant conversion rates. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding the Stripe brand and financial stability.

We are currently expanding our presence in India and hiring for the following team.

Verification and Identity Platform (VIP) — VIP is a core platform team which powers user onboarding and verification (KYC and KYB) worldwide and ensures continued compliance throughout the merchant life-cycle at Stripe. Our team safeguards user identities across our array of digital services, designing and executing a secure, effortless, and user-centered identity collection and verification environment. Our efforts cover a broad spectrum of identity confirming scenarios, including identity proofing, risk-based, and adaptive verification technology. We provide an in-house smart orchestration ecosystem which allows us to integrate with multiple third-party data verification services, financial institutions, and regulatory bodies to build accuracy, reliability, and speed to verify accounts and businesses. We enable continued compliance in an ever-evolving regulatory landscape by providing infrastructure that automates document collection, verification, and merchant communication for high-scale requirements refresh and accounts remediation programs.

Team matching — exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc.

What you'll do

We're looking for Senior Software Engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users, regardless of whether they're an end user, developer, or partner. You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship great code every day.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across engineering teams at Stripe

• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large scale

• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Who you are

We're 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

• You have a strong technical background with at least 6 years of technical experience building APIs.

• Think about systems and services and write high-quality code.

• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.

• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.

• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.

• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise (for example, ¼ of Stripes work in a country that's different from the one they grew up in). Almost every role at Stripe collaborates with some engineers, from Sales and Support in sharing feedback from our customers, to Legal and Accounting in supporting our systems for tracking money movement and reporting around the world.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems

• Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external

• Hold yourself and others to a high bar