Full Stack Engineer, Startup Products

Stripe; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Sales commissions

401(k) plan

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is building financial infrastructure to power the internet. The Startup Products team supports Stripe Atlas and other tools to help founders start and run their company from anywhere in the world.

We’re seeking a versatile software engineer with 3+ years in full‑stack development who can ship user‑facing experiences, APIs, and services while collaborating across design, product, and legal teams. Hybrid work options available in the US.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Enjoy being a generalist working on both the frontend and backend.
• Care deeply about the user experience and build products that delight users.
• Prefer simple, scalable designs with good intuition for durability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain user-facing experiences, services, APIs, and systems.
• Make tradeoffs considering business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Scrutinize and reason about architecture decisions for our products.
• Talk with and learn from founders using Stripe Atlas and other tools.
• Debug production issues across services and stack levels.

Skills

Ruby

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

SQL

Frontend/Backend generalist

Tools

Rails

APIs

Job description

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.

Who we are

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 Startup Products team builds Stripe Atlas and other products that help founders start and run a company, from anywhere in the world. We believe that startups are one of the most effective ways to solve the world's problems, and we want to give founders a running start — and keep them running. We help founders form their company, raise capital, execute critical legal agreements, access 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.

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 stakeholders 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

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet‑ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $156,800 - $285,600. 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 location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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.