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 Reporting Foundations Team is a premier platform entity contained within the Revenue and Finance Automation organization (RFA). This esteemed arm of Stripe's SaaS business division provides a multitude of services such as billing, tax management, revenue and financial reporting, and more to a diverse range of enterprises. Our team is dedicated primarily to the consolidation and enhancement of the infrastructure supporting Stripe's reporting products, encompassing Revenue Recognition, Revenue Reporting and the Reconciliation Product. Our strategic initiatives comprise a wide spectrum of assignments that include the augmentation of our data infrastructure's stability, conception of a robust data layer for aggregation and enrichment, devising architectural advancements to slash latency, enabling real-time streaming for our previously batch based distributed system, reducing infra and computing expenditure, constructing long term abstractions and modular primitives for our reporting use cases.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams.
- Partner with the Revenue Recognition, Revenue Reporting and Reconciliation Product teams to understand their unique requirements related to data and reporting, and provide tailored technical support accordingly.
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale
- Contribute to improving engineering standards, processes, and tools with a keen eye on data engineering best practices.
- Maintain a collaborative environment, engaging in discussions and decision-making processes with stakeholders within various domains at Stripe.
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
- You have a strong technical background with 5 -10 years of experience in the engineering field.
- Proven experience in system design and high-quality code development.
- Ability to uphold and champion high standards in working with large scale production systems.
- Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise (for example, ¼ of Stripes work in a country that’s different from the one they grew up in). Almost every role at Stripe collaborates with some engineers, from Sales and Support in sharing feedback from our customers; to Legal and Accounting in supporting our systems for tracking money movement and reporting around the world.
Preferred qualifications
- Familiarity or experience in data infrastructure, streaming systems, or a related area.
- Domain expertise in accounting, finance, or revenue recognition is beneficial, but not required.
