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 Productivity group is responsible for making Stripe’s internal developers happy and productive. We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to accelerate Stripe engineering as Stripe scales. Within Developer Productivity, the Schemas Infrastructure team works all across the Stripe codebase to make Stripe developers’ interactions with RPCs and datasets as easy and safe as possible, by providing tooling to manage and evolve schemas. It’s a rare opportunity to work in every Stripe repository, in every Stripe language, with almost every product and internal use case at the company.

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.

What you’ll do

• 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 workarounds 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.
• Maintain infrastructure for publishing, codegen, and import of schemas across all Stripe repositories.
• Work with stakeholders across Stripe to balance and accommodate competing desires.

Responsibilities

• Changing how Stripe engineers write, share, review, and merge code through education, automated tooling, new infrastructure, and new processes.
• Building systems to make it easier and safer for Stripe developers to build and evolve schemas, regardless of the use case, language, or repository they work in.
• Constructing better tooling and metrics so that we, and our users, understand the health of our systems.
• Working directly with users to solve their day-to-day problems and build scalable solutions to fix or mitigate them.

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

• Passionate about developer experience.
• Results driven and pragmatic.
• Thrive in a collaborative and diverse environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Enjoy and have experience building developer productivity tooling, especially working with large scale CI/CD systems.
• Comfortable with at least 1 of the following (Go, Java, Ruby, Python), and open to working with others.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with advanced build tools like Bazel.
• Have worked with a schema language like protobuf or thrift before, even as a user.