Software Engineer, Internal Systems
Stripe · Bengaluru, India · 7420 Finance Systems · listed January 28, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
8+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
5
Length
842 words
In the posting’s own words
As part of the Marketing Systems team, you own systems that power go-to-market motions productizing gathered insights and intelligence. This includes building tools that 1/ power better digital experiences, 2/ accelerate customer journey with intelligent orchestrations, 3/ drive smarter decisions with CDP, and 4/ improve marketer and seller productivity.
What it asks for · 5
- 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, high-performance APIs and services
- You have implemented server-side APIs in dynamic languages like Ruby, working with document and relational datastores (especially Mongo and MySQL) and enjoy spelunking through new datasets (especially in systems like Redshift, Presto, or Trino).
- Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build and have excellent oral and written communication
- Experience proactively seeking feedback from users, teammates, and subject matter experts
- The skills to build holistically — from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact and ability to balance speed, complexity, and scope in service of user needs
Also a plus
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)
- Experience in marketing domain building products that contribute to marketing tech stack
- Experience with machine learning, recommender systems, product-led growth, or lifecycle marketing
- Prior experience building distributed systems or a microservices architecture
What the job covers
- Design, build, and maintain beautiful, robust, and high-performance APIs and services
- Ensure our infrastructure is extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets service-level agreements for both external and internal users
- Hide complexity from our users behind simple yet powerful abstractions
- Partner closely with other engineers, analysts, and scientists to build highly scalable systems, to deliver delightful developer experiences and comprehensive interfaces
- Build the APIs that power internal stakeholder-facing UI experiences, defining composable data models and durable interfaces
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack with an eye towards improving maintainability over the long term
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- AWS
- Distributed systems
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
Ways of working
- Cross-functional2×
- Technical writing
- Testing
Data
- Data pipelines2×
- MySQL
Go to market
- Forecasting
- Go-to-market
- Negotiation
Frameworks
- GraphQL
- gRPC
Languages
- Ruby
Models & research
- Machine learning
Product & design
- Accessibility
Security & compliance
- Audit
Words the posting leans on
- systems14×
- experience10×
- financial9×
- seller9×
- building8×
- finance8×
- build7×
- marketing7×
- services7×
- apis6×
- data5×
- deliver5×
- engineers5×
- internal5×
- power5×
- product5×
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