Software Engineer L2 at Stripe in Seattle, WA

Summary: Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, and they are seeking a Software Engineer L2 to design, build, and maintain APIs and services. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop billing features and ensuring high engineering standards through testing and mentorship responsibilities. Responsibilities: - Design, build, productionize, and maintain APls, services, and systems across Stripe's engineering teams using Ruby, React, Typescript, and other programming languages - Predict and measure the performance and outcomes of designed systems - Collaborate with engineers and other cross-functional roles across the company to build new billing features at large-scale to make it easier to businesses for collect and manage their payments - Analyze user needs, feedback, and product requirements to determine technical specifications and the feasibility of design and implementation, taking cost and time constraints into account - Implement technical designs through a series of programming tasks while upholding high engineering standards - Implement unit, functional, and integration tests to prevent bugs and regressions - Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes ensuring operational excellence and contribute to team's on-call rotation - Debug and identify the root cause of errors in a complex system across multiple service components - Provide mentorship and help onboard and spin up new hires for the team Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer science, Human-Computer Interaction or related fields, plus 18 months of software engineering experience - 1.5 years of experience working with Ruby, React, Typescript, and other relevant programming languages and frameworks - 1.5 years of experience translating business needs into software requirements and designs and implementing industry standard design patterns - 1.5 years of experience with using SQL or related query languages to perform data analysis - 1.5 years of experience working with API development, participating in team's oncall to provide emergency response, and debugging production issues across services - 1.5 years of experience leading cross team projects, scoping implementation plans, and managing cross team dependencies - 1.5 years of experience participating in team's on-call rotation, providing emergency responses, debugging and mitigating production issues Required Skills: Ruby, React, Typescript, API development, SQL, Software design patterns, Debugging production issues, Unit testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Mentorship, Cross-team collaboration Benefits: Equity, Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses, 401(k) plan, Medical, dental, and vision benefits, Wellness stipends