Stripe
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Software Engineer, Metronome Infrastructure

Remote

About the role

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 Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) team at Stripe is building a modern, revenue-focused, financial management platform for fast-growing, digital-native companies.

Hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and types use Stripe Billing to collect revenue for recurring and one-time payments across a variety of different pricing models—from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, delivering Usage-Based Billing, and providing recovery and retention tools to prevent customer churn.

What you'll do

As an engineer on the team, you'll be responsible for shaping and building a suite of products that let our users model and operate their business more efficiently. You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship code every day. In this cross-functional role, you'll collaborate with experts in infrastructure, security, design, and operations to build business-critical internal and external features that power Stripe users around the world.

Responsibilities

  • Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high-growth needs of our company and customers for years to come
  • Deliver value through a strong collaborative, user-first approach with stakeholders and customers
  • Mentor engineers to help them grow
  • Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

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

  • 2–12+ years of experience in backend software development
  • Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work across work streams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
  • Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset

Preferred qualifications

  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures
  • Experience with subscription management, usage-based billing, or financial reporting systems
  • Interest in financial infrastructure and how businesses manage their revenue operations
  • Direct leadership and mentorship experience

About Stripe

Launched out of Y Combinator’s 2009 Summer batch, Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online Stripe is a proud partner of YC companies—from Airbnb (S09) to Defog (W23)—to help them grow their businesses and increase the GDP of the internet.

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Job details

Salary

CA$135,200 - CA$258,000

Location

Remote

Company

NameStripe
IndustryB2B
Team Size6

Funding

Total raised

$6B

Last stage

Growth

Investors

Sequoia Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
Thrive Capital
General Catalyst
Founders Fund

Founders

JC

John Collison

President & Co-founder

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Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison

CEO & Co-founder

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.