Backend / API Engineer, Billing
About the role
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.
About the Team
The Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) team at Stripe is building a modern, revenue-focused, financial management platform for fast growing, digital native companies.
Billing: Hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and types use Stripe Billing to collect revenue for recurring and one-time payments across a variety of different pricing models—from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, delivering Usage-Based Billing, and providing recovery and retention tools to prevent customer churn.
What You'll Do
As an engineer on the team, you'll be responsible for shaping and building a suite of products that let our users model and operate their business more efficiently. You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day. In this cross functional role, you will collaborate with experts in infrastructure, security, design, and operations to build mission critical internal and external features that power Stripe users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Design the next generation of Stripe products, to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers for years to come.
- Deliver value through a strong collaborative and users-first approach with stakeholders and customers.
- Mentor engineers to help them grow
- Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Minimum Requirements
- 2-12+ years of experience in backend software development
- Ability to write high quality code in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++, etc.
- Hands-on experience contributing to or building backend systems