Senior Software Engineer, Backend

<h2><strong>Who we are</strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p>Stripe, LLC. 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.</p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Building and operating critical, large-scale systems that manage massive volumes of financial information, to fulfill business goals for Stripe and its partners;</li> <li>Navigate a complex fintech environment with numerous compliance regulations, translating internal and external business needs into robust software requirements and scalable distributed systems;</li> <li>Lead cross- functional alignment and provide technical direction for multi-team projects;</li> <li>Build large-scale (petabyte-size) financial data platforms, solutions, and pipelines using Big Data technologies and distributed systems;</li> <li>Debugging production issues across the stack, analyzing complex datasets and designing large-scale data pipelines using modern Big Data technologies to ensure reliable, high-performance solutions;</li> <li>Executing projects related to insights into Stripe’s financial performance across multiple Stripe products;</li> <li>Work on systems critical to Stripe's future financial operations, with impact over billions of dollars of payment volume;</li> <li>Deeply understand the design and architecture of modern payments and financial technology across countries; and</li> <li>Leverage experience with monitoring, incident handling, debugging in production environments to ensure data pipeline health and SLOs, while reducing operational toil via automation.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3> <p>Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Security, or a related field, plus five (5) years of related work experience in Software Engineering.</p> <p>Must also have experience in each of the following:</p> <ul> <li>5 years of experience programming in Java, Scala, or Python;</li> <li>5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable distributed systems;</li> <li>5 years of experience debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack;</li> <li>5 years of experience with different testing tools and frameworks including JUnit, Mockito, and TestNG;</li> <li>4 years of experience developing complex SQL queries, analyzing datasets and designing large-scale data pipelines;</li> <li>4 years of experience working in fintech domain;</li> <li>4 years of experience leading cross-team projects and building alignment on multi-team technical direction; and</li> <li>1 year experience working with Apache Spark or similar modern Big Data technologies.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Salary: $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/yr.</p> <p>This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions / sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.</p> <p>40 hrs/week</p> <p>50% Telecommuting permitted.</p> <p>Multiple Positions Available.&nbsp;</p> <p>Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. <strong>WA80</strong></p> <h3><strong>#LI-DNI</strong></h3>