Frontend Engineer, Link

New York, NY

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

Link is a digital wallet designed for effortless and secure online payments and digital transactions. With Link, consumers enjoy convenience and peace of mind: it works on any device or browser, is backed by the highest security mechanisms, offers exclusive purchase protections on eligible items, and ensures seamless and quick payments.

Across the Link Engineering org, we focus on building beautiful and delightful payment experiences as well as payment options so consumers world-wide could pay with their preferred payment methods. Our team's work spans the entire stack from building front-end experiences, infrastructure that supports low latency payment transactions, to intelligent systems that help protect consumers and merchants from bad actors on every transaction.

Team matching—exact team matching for one of the subteams within this org will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process here.

What you’ll do

We're looking for frontend engineers who are interested in building consumer-focused UIs and full-stack products that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users, regardless of whether they're an end user, developer, or partner.

Responsibilities

  • Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end.
  • Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of Stripe.
  • Craft new products and features that impact millions of people and businesses around the world such as building the fastest and most seamless checkout flow.
  • Explore creative opportunities for next-gen payments experiences that leverage the depth of Stripe’s payment technology.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing and operations.
  • Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
  • Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.

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+ years of software development experience, with an emphasis on modern frontend technologies (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React) and building delightful user interfaces.
  • Comfort operating as a frontend developer and owning projects end-to-end.
  • Are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact doing so.
  • Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
  • Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience working in high-growth teams similar to Stripe.
  • Experience building financial systems or tools for financial experts.

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

$156,800 - $235,200

Location

New York, NY

Company

NameStripe
IndustryBanking as a Service
Team Size7000

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.