Staff Full Stack Engineer, Connect
Stripe
Who we are
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, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Connect is Stripe's leading product for marketplaces, on-demand services, e-commerce site builders, invoicing platforms, professional SaaS products, fundraising platforms, rental management platforms, and more. By utilizing the power of Connect, users in each of these categories can link multiple parties for the exchange of goods or services. These users rely on Connect for the crucial function of reliably routing payments between these parties.
By powering fast, flexible, compliant, and cost-efficient routing of payments on the internet, Connect not only spurs the creation of innovative business models, but it also enables organizations (whether they are businesses, nonprofits, or governmental agencies) to channel previously-offline payments to the internet.
What you’ll do
As a Staff Engineer on the Connect team at Stripe, you will be the technical leader for an engineering team that helps Connect users understand their business opportunities and create the simplest possible actions to help them grow their businesses. This involves surfacing insights to Connect customers, helping them understand the potential impact, and creating delightful user experiences that enable them to act on those insights. When we do this well, we uncover novel perspectives and surprising facts for our customers.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain our applications, from the user interface through to core data models and APIs
- Work with engineers and technical leaders across the company to identify, gather, transform, and present data to help customers grow their businesses
- Work with engineers and technical leaders across the company to simplify and improve the onboarding experience for Connect customers
- Build high-quality end-to-end product experiences, demonstrating deep care for users' needs and serving as a steward of crafting great experiences
- Unblock the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Teach and mentor other team members to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe
- Design, build, and scale high-quality software and systems that strike the right balance between simplicity, flexibility, scalability, and security
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 10+ years of experience in full-time software development roles
- Experience building web applications using HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript frameworks
- Experience mentoring teams of senior engineers on multi-quarter or multi-year projects
- Experience defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
- Experience identifying business priorities, creating new areas of investment, anticipating pitfalls and risks, and providing deep technical expertise for teams you lead
- Experience interacting directly with customers to better understand their use cases and brainstorm better ways to solve their problems
Preferred qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in full-time software development roles
- Extensive experience building web applications and creating rich, reusable web components
- Strong technical background, including 8+ years of experience designing and engineering user surfaces for high-impact products
- Experience with experimentation
- Experience with data-driven decision making
The annual US base salary range for this role is $224,000 - $336,000. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.