The opportunity
Stripe’s Revenue & Financial Management group is building new products that expand the scope of problems we tackle beyond payments into Revenue Management, Financial Operations and analytics. Right now this includes products like Billing, Invoicing, Revenue Recognition,…
What you'll do
Scope and lead large technical projects that are the foundational pillars for: Financial Data Management Infrastructure
Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices: we make in building these products. In many cases, you will be the decider of these decisions
Directly contribute to core interface design and write code. Serve as a role: model for how great software should be written for Stripe as a whole
Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best: practices, Stripe system realities, and numerous stakeholders’ preferences and concerns
Advise Stripe’s leadership team on key technical considerations related to: the future of financial data management (e.g., on the utility of blockchain technologies). If you’re successful, you will change how finance teams operate fundamentally across the world
Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
What they're looking for
- You have a strong technical background, including 12+ years of experience: with system architecture and designing distributed systems handling large amounts of data
- You have been a Staff, Principal, or Distinguished Engineer
- Deep experience building custom solutions using big data and streaming: technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Iceberg, and Airflow
- You have hands on experience in building modern microservices architecture-based products
- You have served as the technical lead for a team of engineers and can demonstrate broad technical leadership
- You have owned the technical roadmap for a business area
- You listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization: while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
- You work well cross-functionally and your co-workers at all levels and across all teams trust you
