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