The opportunity
Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location.
What you'll do
Architect and operate low-latency, fault-tolerant backend microservices that: integrate with Indian payment methods
Map complex, India-specific payment flows into Stripe’s global, unified API: platforms, ensuring a seamless integration experience for developers worldwide
Design highly reliable adapter layers that interact with domestic banking: partners and payment networks, building systems that gracefully handle external API latency and asynchronous callbacks
Own end-to-end service health, implementing shadow rollouts, distributed: tracing, automated failovers and proactive alerting for 99.99% uptime
Collaborate with Product, Regulatory/Legal, Risk and Partner Integration: teams across global engineering hubs while delivering seamless developer-facing APIs
Mentor and empower engineers to contribute independently through ongoing: technical guidance and actionable feedback
What they're looking for
- Independently scope, build and ship medium-to-large projects from ambiguous requirements to production
- Build robust APIs that hide the extreme complexity of Indian payment rails: behind simple, elegant developer experiences
- Partner with product and data teams to proactively identify, size and solve: the most impactful problems for our users
- Engineer highly reliable, scalable infrastructure that consistently meets: strict SLAs for all internal and external systems