Staff Software Engineer - API Platform
Core
Building the business-critical infrastructure and constructs behind Stripe's products, specifically the backbone powering APIs, Developer, and User Experiences.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer - API Platform
Builds
End-to-end APIs, infrastructure systems, and abstraction ecosystems for internal customers and partners.
Domain
Financial technology / API infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic technical leadership, architecture design, incident response, cross-team collaboration, pragmatic solution delivery, high-level autonomy, programming in Java/Ruby/Python/Go, rigorous on-call rotation management, timezone flexibility.
Preferred skills
Experience with webhook delivery, databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, in-house framework development, serverless platforms.
Technologies
Java, Ruby, Python, Go, webhook delivery, databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, serverless platforms
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor engineering teams, partner with Engineering Managers on roadmaps, own impactful projects end-to-end, interact with users to solve infrastructure pain points, provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture and incident response, build and ship end-to-end APIs.
Seniority
Staff, strategic technical leadership & mentorship