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
Founders use Atlas to start a company in a few clicks, from anywhere in the world. We believe that startups are one of the most effective ways to solve the world’s problems, and our mission is to give founders a running start. Atlas helps founders incorporate and set up their company, get discounts for the internet’s best tools, and automate operations while feeling ambitious, smart, and assured. Our goal is to create more startups that get to product-market fit, fast. More than 50,000 startups have already started using Atlas.
Atlas is a small but mighty team within Stripe that moves fast to make things better for founders. In the past year, we’ve helped founders purchase their shares in a single click - no cash needed, automated 83(b) elections, and enabled founders to open a bank account and use Stripe payments even faster. We currently incorporate about 15% of US startups.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain, user-facing experiences, services, APIs, and systems
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Scrutinize, reason clearly, and make decisions about the technology and architecture choices we make in building these products
- Talk with and learn from our users (founders in the first days of starting their company)
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
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 software engineering experience
- Enjoy being a generalist working on both the frontend and backend
- Care deeply about the user experience and take pride in building products to solve problems and delight users
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholder and partners: we work closely with designers, product managers, lawyers, and analysts
- Have a high quality bar, attention to detail, and helps teammates deliver polished products
- Want to own end-to-end product experiences: product design, architecture, writing lots of code, safely rolling out that code, and doing whatever is needed to ship products that help founders succeed
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with startups and the challenges founders face
- Prior experience with Ruby, Javascript/Typescript, React, and SQL
- Have a track record of building excellent products
