Staff Engineer, Payments
Stripe · Seattle, WA · 8556 LPM Core - Eng
About this role
Stripe is hiring a principal-level Principal Engineer in the software engineering function based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with API Development and roughly 12+ years of relevant work.
- Role
- Principal Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Department
- 8556 LPM Core - Eng
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Job description
from Stripe careersWho 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
The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments.
What you’ll do
Engineers on the team have the opportunity to expand the reach of Stripe’s global payments network, design and implement novel payment capabilities, and deliver best-in-class reliability and performance.
Learn more about payment methods at Stripe’s Payment Methods Guide.
Responsibilities
- Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
- Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack