Software Engineer, Payin

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

What it asks for · 6

• 8+ years of experience designing, implementing and operating large-scale, high-performance APIs and services
• You have implemented server-side APIs in languages like Ruby, Java, or Go, working with document and relational datastores (especially Mongo and MySQL)
• 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 ability to balance speed, complexity, and scope in service of user needs
• Excellent oral and written communication

Also a plus

• Experience building large-scale financial systems, payments infrastructure or working in the broader fintech industry is a plus
• Experience building distributed systems or operating within a complex microservices architecture
• Proficiency in Ruby, Java, or Go, with deep experience modeling data in relational and document databases (e.g., MySQL, Mongo)
• Experience driving technical alignment across global, cross-functional teams

What the job covers

• Architect and operate low-latency, fault-tolerant backend microservices that integrate with Indian payment methods
• Map complex, India-specific payment flows into Stripe’s global, unified API platforms, ensuring a seamless integration experience for developers worldwide
• Design highly reliable adapter layers that interact with domestic banking partners and payment networks, building systems that gracefully handle external API latency and asynchronous callbacks
• Own end-to-end service health, implementing shadow rollouts, distributed tracing, automated failovers and proactive alerting for 99.99% uptime
• Collaborate with Product, Regulatory/Legal, Risk and Partner Integration teams across global engineering hubs while delivering seamless developer-facing APIs
• Mentor and empower engineers to contribute independently through ongoing technical guidance and actionable feedback
• Independently scope, build and ship medium-to-large projects from ambiguous requirements to production
• Build robust APIs that hide the extreme complexity of Indian payment rails behind simple, elegant developer experiences
• Partner with product and data teams to proactively identify, size and solve the most impactful problems for our users
• Engineer highly reliable, scalable infrastructure that consistently meets strict SLAs for all internal and external systems
• 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

Words the posting leans on

• experience8×
• payment5×
• users5×
• apis4×
• service4×
• systems4×
• build3×
• global3×
• partner3×
• requirements3×
• api2×
• balance2×
• collaboration2×
• complex2×
• complexity2×
• data2×

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