Staff Engineer, Internal Systems

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

The Financial Engineering - Business Insights team empowers Stripe to deeply understand its business performance and drive efficient actions. As the single source of truth for Stripe's financial data, the team guarantees high data quality (completeness, correctness, and timeliness), underpinning key business decisions and strategies.

The team's products, including the Financial Data Warehouse (FDW), internal data products, and insights applications like User Margin Portal and Margin Pulse, enable critical business functions such as: understanding financial metrics, in-depth margin analysis at company and user levels, company-wide financial planning and forecasting (including quarterly), providing detailed financial performance insights across various dimensions, driving operational automation for efficiency gains, supporting the monthly financial close process, enabling Budget vs. Actual (BvA) analysis, and facilitating board-level financial performance reporting.

Utilizing technologies like React, Ruby, Horizon (Java), Apache Spark, Scala, Python, and Airflow, the team plays a vital role in providing the foundational data and tools necessary for Stripe to effectively manage and grow its business.

What you’ll do

 

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain, robust, and high-performance services
• Ensure our infrastructure is extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets SLAs adhering to business requirements
• Hide complexity from our users behind simple yet powerful abstractions
• Partner closely with other engineers, analysts and scientists to build highly scalable system(s), to deliver delightful developer experiences and comprehensive interfaces
• Build large scale data pipelines that power critical business processes, defining composable data models and durable interfaces.
• Debug production issues across services and pipelines, and multiple levels of the stack with an eye towards improving maintainability over the long term.
• Own the larger cross org architecture
• 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

• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, high-performance systems
• Lead large-scale technical projects that significantly impact users and the business.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design teams to define product strategy and user experience.
• Establish best practices and processes to enhance team effectiveness and foster a culture of learning.
• Mentor engineers at all levels, supporting their professional growth and technical leadership development.
• Own complex problems end-to-end, ensuring reliability and operability while considering business impact.
• You have excellent oral and written communication.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience solving complex compliance or business problems
• Experiences with big-data technologies such as Spark and Presto
• Experience with workflow automation tools and orchestration platforms, such as Apache Airflow
• Past experience working on financial reporting systems