About the Role
The Financial Connections team is building the connective tissue between banks and the internet economy, creating a platform for seamless and secure access to banking data globally. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining scalable bank integration infrastructure, working across the stack to create intelligent systems and enable connectivity for new countries and product use cases.
Responsibilities
- Scope and lead large technical projects, translating business goals into clear technical requirements and executing effectively.
- Align our tech stack with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for the needs of emerging new businesses.
- Work with engineers across the company to deliver comprehensive and reliable access to trustworthy banking data.
- Balance the tradeoffs between short-term requirements and long-term roadmaps, making decisions that consider business priorities, user experience, and sustainable technical foundations.
- Mentor and collaborate with other engineers and managers to grow the next generation of leaders at Stripe.
Requirements
- Strong technical background, including 3+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems.
- Comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations.
- Track record of leading and shipping complex cross-team projects end-to-end — from scoping and design through production and operations.
- Measures success in terms of business impact, not lines of code.
- Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Works well cross-functionally and earns trust from co-workers at all levels.
- Prefers simple solutions and designs over complex ones, with good intuition for what will last and scale.
- Cares deeply about mentorship and growing engineers.
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems
About the Company
- Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.
- Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.
- Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.
- AI and stablecoins have brought upon a renaissance of innovation in the internet economy.
- Products like the Link AI Wallet and stablecoin cross border payments are signs of a rapid transformation in the way people pay.
- Underpinning this new technology is access to the same network of banks and financial institutions that consumers and businesses have relied on for decades.
- Bank accounts need to transform into powerful tools to unlock this new age of commerce.
