Staff Software Engineer - MMS Product

London, United KingdomHybridFull TimeStaffPosted 2 months ago

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Role summary

Stripe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Money as a Service (MaaS) organization, focused on making money programmable. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining large-scale systems and APIs that handle billions of money movement requests. The engineer will also debug critical production issues, mentor other engineers, and engage directly with users to shape product direction. The position requires strong backend and API skills, with occasional full-stack work. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of industry experience, strong coding abilities, and thrives in an autonomous, entrepreneurial environment. Collaboration across teams and with stakeholders is essential.

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 Organization

Money as a Service (MaaS) Money as a Service is a new org within Stripe which is all about making money programmable: funding, FX’ing, sending, spending. The Money as a Service (MaaS) teams build the APIs and product experience that allow Stripe users to perform these money management capabilities on Stripe globally.

You can see some of the recent products we’ve launched:

Multicurrency balances

Global Payouts

What you’ll do

We’re looking for an engineer with strong backend and API skills but open to lean into full stack on occasion where necessary. As a Staff Engineer you will be responsible for working across 10+ teams providing direction, executing against the highest complexity workstreams and providing mentorship for other engineers.

Responsibilities

Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, user experiences, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.

Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.

Mentor engineers to help them grow.

Meet directly with our users to help shape product changes.

Collaborate with teams and stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues.

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

10+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor include co-ops).

Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic).

Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success.

Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial.

Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience designing and building APIs.

Experience building user facing products.

Experience with user research or interaction design.

Sample Stripe interview questions

1
Design a rate limiter
system designmedium
2
Design a Distributed LRU Cache
system designmedium
3
Design an application performance monitoring system
system designmedium
4
Design a traffic monitoring and routing system for real-time data.
system designmedium
5
Design a real-time system for analyzing user interactions on websites.
system designmedium

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