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 organization 

Stripe’s Payments and Risk organizations are at the heart of Stripe’s business. They are responsible for enabling our users to accept payments worldwide, in a secure and reliable fashion.  

You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including: 

Payins: The Payins organization oversees the fundamental primitives of collecting payments across the Stripe ecosystem. Custodians of mission-critical foundations, and stewards of essential administrative payment workflows, merchants rely on us to innovate on the fundamentals. We act as catalysts towards realizing Stripe’s flexible and extensible multi-product platform. Optimized Checkout & Link: The Optimized Checkout and Link teams focus on building best-in-class checkout experiences that provide delightful checkout experiences for customers, while driving higher purchase conversion for merchants. As an organization, we work on Checkout, Payment Links, Elements, Payment Methods, and Link – each playing a crucial part in augmenting the economic landscape of the internet.

Within this organization, we are looking for frontend engineers across a few different areas:

Product: You’ll join a payments team building high-quality UIs for merchants’ checkout pages or the Stripe Dashboard working with experienced frontend and full-stack engineers to deliver world-class checkout experiences. You’ll work with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders across the organization to build new features and products across Elements, Checkout, and Link. Frontend Platform: As a platform engineer you will be building tools and systems to enable a 100+ engineering organization to deliver delightful frontend features for millions of Stripe merchants. Our team places a heavy emphasis on being domain experts on how to develop reliably and safely for the web platform at a very high scale. Experimentation/Growth: As part of a growth-focused engineering team, you will improve our buyer-facing experiences, experimentation foundations, and systems that power intelligence to improve a consumer’s experience and checkout conversion. This is a new, exciting area of focus for our organization, and we are looking for frontend engineers with growth or experimentation expertise to help us deliver more experiments than we’ve ever run before, and help us improve our foundations. You’ll work closely with data science, product managers, and designers to create, build, and execute buyer experiments efficiently. 

As a frontend engineer at Stripe, you’ll join fast-moving teams building consumer-focused UIs and full-stack products. You’ll work with experienced engineers, product, design, and data science to conceive of and deliver world-class solutions to end-users problems. 

Responsibilities

Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end. Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of Stripe. Craft new products and features that impact millions of people and businesses around the world such as building the fastest and most seamless checkout flow.  Explore creative opportunities for next-gen payments experiences that leverage the depth of Stripe’s payment technology.  Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing and operations.  Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation. Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.  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 2+ years of software development experience, with an emphasis on modern frontend technologies (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React) and building delightful user interfaces. Comfort operating as a frontend developer and owning projects end-to-end. Are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact doing so. Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts. Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Preferred qualifications Experience working in high-growth teams similar to Stripe. Experience building financial systems or tools for financial experts.