The opportunity
Web Presence and Platform (WPP) is organized into two pillars, each of which is grouped into pods that focus on the central tenets of Stripe's public mission. The Presence pillar creates industry-leading designs for Stripe's front door surfaces, educates customers about the…
What you'll do
Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and performant services and systems
Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
Build and launch new capabilities and products that bring significant value to customers
Uphold our high engineering standards and elevate quality and engineering: efficiency within our many codebases and processes
Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency: engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations
Debug production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack
What they're looking for
- Strong technical background, including 3+ years of experience as a backend: engineer, with an affinity for building scalable backend infrastructure
- Experience delivering, extending, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
- Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to: solve problems and delight both internal and external users
- Ability to stitch together many different services even if you haven't worked with them before
- Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones and good: intuition for what is lasting and scalable
- The skills to build holistically—from specs and documentation to: implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact
- Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from colleagues at all levels
