Staff Software Engineer, Subscriptions

Staff Engineer – Subscriptions 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 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 Minimum Requirements 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 Hybrid Work This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office). When working in‑office, Stripe‑assigned employees are expected to spend at least 50% of a given month in their local office or with users. Remote work is encouraged; Stripe does not cover relocation costs. Pay and Benefits The annual salary range for this role in Canada is CAD 208,000 – CAD 312,000. Benefits may include equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses, retirement plans, health benefits, and wellness stipends. Details about compensation and benefits will be discussed during the interview process. Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level Employment Type Full‑time Job Function Engineering and Information Technology #J-18808-Ljbffr