Software Engineer, Billing Subscriptions

Position: Staff Software Engineer, Billing Subscriptions

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

Join Stripe's Subscriptions team to help people start, run and scale businesses with complex recurring payments from anywhere in the world. Our users depend on our products to make it easy to accept recurring payments: from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, and allowing merchants to utilize powerful quote lifecycle features. We deliver these capabilities at scale to manage millions of recurring payments a day, for businesses ranging from exciting, fast moving startups to large, world-spanning companies.

What you’ll do

Subscriptions team members have the opportunity to design and extend Stripe's public Contracts API, build abstractions spanning multiple teams and think about the future of Stripe's Billing architecture. We are looking for a Staff Engineer who is passionate about delighting users and building elegant APIs that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of Stripe. You will work closely with our highly technical users to understand their needs and to build products that help them be more successful on Stripe.

Responsibilities

Help build our next generation Subscription primitives that will power many higher order APIs

Lead by example in designing, developing and delivering optimized, delightful product experiences

Partner closely with engineering, product, and design leadership to define our product-led growth strategy

Establish best practices, frameworks, and repeatable processes that enable us to measure the impact of every feature that we ship

Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation

Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps

Work in a variety of languages and technologies, including Ruby, Java and Typescript

Mentor and coach individual contributors to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe

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

This is a Staff-level role - that typically means 10+ years of experience building, operating, and evolving large-scale production systems

You can work effectively across the stack from top to bottom, comfortably navigating codebases with different languages and tools

You’re self-directed and can operate autonomously across multiple teams to deliver scaled impact

Experience as a technical lead, including defining the roadmap for large, complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions

Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers as their technical leader

Preferred qualifications

You have a strong technical background, including experience designing and engineering products and user surfaces for high-impact products

Experience with experimentation

Experience with data-driven decision making

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office.

Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person…