Staff Software Engineer, Subscriptions

Stripe; Toronto; On-site; CAD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial infrastructure platform is looking for a Staff Engineer in Toronto, Canada. This role involves designing and extending APIs for subscription management, mentoring engineers, and leading product strategy. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of software development experience and is capable of working across various technologies such as Ruby, Java, and Typescript. This position offers a competitive salary range and valuable benefits, fostering collaboration and innovative thinking.

Benefits

Equity

Company bonus

Health benefits

Wellness stipends

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in full-time software development roles.
• Experience in defining roadmaps for complex projects.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and extend Stripe's public Subscriptions & Quotes API.
• Lead product experiences in subscription management.
• Establish best practices for measuring impact.

Skills

Experience across the stack

Technical leadership

Mentoring and coaching

Autonomous work

Tools

Ruby

Java

Typescript

Job description

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

Join Stripe's Subscriptions team to help people start, run and scale businesses with complex recurring payments from anywhere in the world. Our users depend on our products to make it easy to accept recurring payments: from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, and allowing merchants to utilize powerful quote lifecycle features. We deliver these capabilities at scale to manage millions of recurring payments a day, for businesses ranging from exciting, fast moving startups to large, world-spanning companies.

What you’ll do

Subscriptions team members have the opportunity to design and extend Stripe's public Subscriptions & Quotes API, build abstractions spanning multiple teams and think about the future of Stripe's Billing architecture. We are looking for a Staff Engineer who is passionate about delighting users and building elegant APIs that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of Stripe. You will work closely with our highly technical users to understand their needs and to build products that help them be more successful on Stripe.

Responsibilities

• Help build our next generation Subscription primitives that will power many higher order APIs
  
• Lead by example in designing, developing and delivering optimized, delightful product experiences
  
• Partner closely with engineering, product, and design leadership to define our product-led growth strategy
  
• Establish best practices, frameworks, and repeatable processes that enable us to measure the impact of every feature that we ship
  
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
  
• Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps
  
• Work in a variety of languages and technologies, including Ruby, Java and Typescript
  
• Mentor and coach individual contributors to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe
  

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.

• 10+ years of experience in full time software development roles
  
• You can work effectively across the stack from top to bottom, comfortably navigating codebases with different languages and tools
  
• You’re self-directed and can operate autonomously across multiple teams to deliver scaled impact
  
• Experience as a technical lead, including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
  
• Experience mentoring and growing senior engineers as their technical leader
  

Preferred qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in full time software development roles
  
• You have a strong technical background, including 8+ years of experience designing and engineering products and user surfaces for high-impact products
  
• Experience with experimentation
  
• Experience with data-driven decision making
  

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is CA$208,000 - CA$312,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.