Software Engineer

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe 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.

About The Team

The Developer Infra group is responsible for making Stripe’s developers happy and productive. We work on tools, processes, and collaborate with internal stakeholders to accelerate Stripe engineering as Stripe scales.

Python is a popular choice for data engineering, data science, and machine learning, which underpin many of our products and business-critical processes. The Python infrastructure team works on both developer infrastructure and language-specific tooling to support Stripe’s engineers. This includes working on language processing tools, IDEs, build tools, and other infrastructure. Our users include engineers working in product, ML, Data Science, DevOps, and other infrastructure teams. Understanding and meeting the needs of our diverse userbase is key to allowing Stripe engineers working in Python to have the most productive time of their career.

We’re looking for people with a strong background in and interest in building language processing tools and language-specific developer tools. The ideal candidate will have a mix of technical expertise in language processing, a passion for solving developer experience problems, and a pragmatic ability to ship results iteratively in close collaboration with stakeholders and teammates.

What you’ll do

You Will Join a Team Working Closely With Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, And Other Infrastructure Teams To Build Powerful, Flexible, And User-friendly Tooling That Greatly Accelerates Python Engineers At Stripe. Here Are a Few Examples Of The Type Of Work You Might Do

• Working closely with machine learning engineers building LLMs
• Improving IDE functionality for Python development
• Constructing systems for analyzing code health and applying automated fixes such as code formatting and type checking to Python
• Simplifying and automating Python dependency management
• Integrating Python with build tools for hermetic builds, such as Bazel

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of technically sophisticated engineers who make developer experience their first priority
• Solve problems for fellow Stripe engineers by understanding their needs and coming up with both short term and long term solutions
• Use both qualitative and quantitative metrics to determine priorities and measure effectiveness
• Deliver practical, useful, and reliable tools, processes, and code refactorings to Stripe engineers
• Work with stakeholders across Stripe to balance and accommodate competing desires

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of professional, full-time software development experience
• Either deep Python language knowledge, or experience building tools to improve productivity with empathy for the end user
• Experience writing high quality code in a major programming language, preferably Python, Ruby, Java, or Go
• A background supporting engineer focused tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a collaborative environment
• Demonstrated ability in language tooling and runtimes
• Experience working with hermetic build systems, such as Bazel
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (typically, 35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

A remote location, in most cases, is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €83,200 - €156,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.