The opportunity
Stripe is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world, and we’re scaling in every dimension: users, revenue, people, technology, processes, and more. The API Platform team is building the systems that support Stripe’s API.
What you'll do
Lead technical delivery and innovation for a team of talented engineers with: a wide breadth of mission-critical ownership
Lead technical vision for core code across Stripe APIs and webhooks, used by: all developers at Stripe. Focus on efficiency, usability, and product partner happiness.
Lead technical vision for deep infrastructure challenges across complex: systems, ensuring best-in-class scaling, reliability, and efficiency.
Coach a team of talented engineers, providing technical mentorship and: support to ensure their success. Our staff engineers frequently find clever solutions to make the impossible possible, and to supercharge those around them to hit aggressive deadlines.
Own highly impactful projects independently and end-to-end, working across: teams, organizations, and stakeholders to support the Infrastructure’s key engineering initiatives.
Interact directly with users and partner teams to understand key pain points,: and apply your understanding to infrastructure’s hardest problems.
What they're looking for
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).
- Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (webhook: delivery, databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc).
- Generally enjoys an in-office culture.
- Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs.
- Experience building serverless platforms.