Staff Software Engineer - MMS Product

<h2>Who we are</h2> <h3>About Stripe</h3> <p>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.</p> <h3>About the Organization</h3> <p>Money as a Service (MaaS) Money as a Service is a new org within Stripe which is all about making money programmable: funding, FX’ing, sending, spending. The Money as a Service (MaaS) teams build the APIs and product experience that allow Stripe users to perform these money management capabilities on Stripe globally.</p> <p>You can see some of the recent products we’ve launched:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2B-58Hf9GU">Multicurrency balances</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLx-lJGXeE">Global Payouts</a></li> </ul> <h2>What you’ll do</h2> <p>We’re looking for an engineer with strong backend and API skills but open to lean into full stack on occasion where necessary. As a Staff Engineer you will be responsible for working across 10+ teams providing direction, executing against the highest complexity workstreams and providing mentorship for other engineers.</p> <h3>Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li>Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, user experiences, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.</li> <li>Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.</li> <li>Mentor engineers to help them grow.</li> <li>Meet directly with our users to help shape product changes.</li> <li>Collaborate with teams and stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.</li> <li>Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues.</li> </ul> <h2>Who you are</h2> <p>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.</p> <h3>Minimum requirements</h3> <ul> <li>10+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor include co-ops).</li> <li>Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic).</li> <li>Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success.</li> <li>Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial.</li> <li>Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users.</li> </ul> <h3>Preferred Qualifications</h3> <ul> <li>Experience designing and building APIs.</li> <li>Experience building user facing products.</li> <li>Experience with user research or interaction design.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>