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Payments · Posted 11 days ago

Staff Engineer — Payments Platform

Stripe
Payments · Series C+

The role

Build the payments platform that processes hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Reliability and correctness at planetary scale.

Series C+. Stripe processes hundreds of billions of dollars annually for millions of businesses.

What you'll do

  • ✓ Lead architecture across the core payments platform
  • ✓ Mentor senior engineers and influence org-wide practices
  • ✓ Drive correctness, durability, and reliability investments

You should have

  • ✓ 10+ years building production systems
  • ✓ Strong systems intuition — concurrency, durability, scale
  • ✓ Track record influencing across multiple teams

Nice to have

  • ◦ Prior payments / fintech experience
  • ◦ Database internals expertise

The stack

Ruby Java Distributed Systems Databases Payments

How they hire

Step 01 Phone screen 45 min
Step 02 System design 60 min
Step 03 Onsite loop 4× 60 min
Step 04 Total cycle 14–20 days

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