Backend Engineer, Billing

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.

The Billing organization at Stripe builds and operates Stripe Billing, a growing core product of Stripe. 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.

To support even the most unique and complex business models, our technology and products must be configurable and programmable. This requires our team to innovate in how we model different types of businesses, and how we use technology to enable customers to piece together Stripe’s Billing’s platform primitives into holistic solutions that support any type of business. Through this work, Stripe Billing allows worry-free innovation and evolution of any customer’s business model. Stripe is defining the industry’s approach to Billing solutions; we’re looking for innovators to join us.

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 will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day. In this cross functional role, you will collaborate with experts in infrastructure, security, design, and operations to build mission critical internal and external features that power Stripe users around the world. 

• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems.
• Work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and products.
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of Stripe
• Contribute to the design and architecture of the next generation of Stripe’s infrastructure, to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers for years to come.

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.

• You have 3-10+ years of experience as a Backend or Software Engineer.
• Take pride in solving complex backend or distributed systems work at scale. 
• Have a high bar for keeping your solutions expressive yet simple to use, and can put yourself in the shoes of your users.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders.
• You’re obsessed with product quality and don’t settle for “good enough.”