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

User Billing provides a central entry point for Stripe teams to monetize products in global markets. We build platforms and services to define and manage pricing, calculate and collect Stripe’s revenue, and empower Stripe and our users to understand and manage revenue and costs. We work on customer-facing experiences, internal platforms, and data pipelines to empower Accounting, Finance, Strategy, Sales, and Stripe’s Products to drive business value across the entire user and product lifecycle.

What you’ll do

As a Backend engineer in User Billing, you will have an opportunity to work on crafting a wide variety of billing-related end user experiences. You’ll partner closely with Stripe’s product teams to bring to life our ambitious vision of providing a best-in-class billing experience to our customers, which includes building reporting, dashboards, insights, and guided user journeys to interact with pricing and the next-gen commercial constructs we are building to support Stripe’s future growth. You will also get a chance to work closely with internal stakeholders who use revenue and pricing data to build self-serve tooling that will enable internal and external users to better understand Stripe fees.

We are dedicated to providing an exceptional user experience through craftsmanship, and ensuring our users can focus on what truly matters: growing their businesses. We require superb frontend engineers that can help us realize the profound impact that lies ahead of us.

Responsibilities

• Work with a small team of technically sophisticated engineers who put users first.
• Independently and collaboratively identify solutions to internal user pain points and build and iterate solutions.
• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps.
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company including engineering, product, operations, finance, data science, accounting, sales, and operations.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

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

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Enjoy being working on the backend technologies and Leading the large scale projects, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally.
• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• Are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact doing so.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise

Preferred qualifications

• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale.
• A passion for performance and love coming up with creative solutions to push it to the limit.
• Appreciation for the importance of good documentation -- internal and external.
• Can put yourself in the shoes of your users and be a steward of crafting great experiences.