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

Stripe’s Financial Connections is building the world’s best and most seamless user experience for allowing consumers to link and instantly pay with their bank account. Our flows are included in some of the most recognized consumer sites across the globe, like Airbnb and Uber, which use Stripe for bank payments powered by Financial Connections. 

What you’ll do

You’ll be joining the Account Growth team within Financial Connections. As an engineer on the Account Growth team, you’ll be responsible for the end to end experience of customers who want to share data with our merchants or pay with their bank account. You’ll work on understanding and optimizing the end-user experience and building a high-quality, operationally excellent product.

Responsibilities

• Craft beautiful user experiences with an emphasis on quality and taste
• Explore new ideas and mine through data to propose and run experiments to improve the user experience
• Balance working on large projects with smaller, iterative product quality improvements
• Design, build, and maintain shared UX components across Link and Stripe broadly
• Join a cross-functional team focused on supporting merchants and consumers enabling financial data access and bank payments across a number of platforms (web, iOS, and Android)
• Work directly with strategic external users to understand their needs and build creative solutions for them.
• Work with product managers, user researchers, designers, data scientists and other engineers to empathize with external users and build solutions to address their needs

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.

Minimum Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in web development using React
• 2+ years of full-time, industry software engineering experience (not including internships or co-ops)
• Have a desire and ability to empathize with the many different types of users who depend on Stripe’s products and APIs
• Have a passion for building delightful user experiences
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, while keeping a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable
• You measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with TypeScript
• Experience working on server APIs in modern frameworks
• Are comfortable working on both front-end applications and backend systems, even if you prefer one of the two
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Sales and Support to better understand our customers’ needs, Legal and Accounting to understand how global policies influence our money-moving infrastructure, etc