Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.
About the role
This is a small, selective internship for exceptional high school students and recent graduates whose technical work already stands out well beyond what we typically see at this stage. We are not looking for potential or credentials alone. We are looking for students who can show, through what they have built, researched, or contributed, that they are ready to do substantive engineering work with a Stripe team. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Currently enrolled in high school, or graduating from high school before the internship begins
- Ability to explain your individual contribution to the work you submit, including the problem, technical decisions, tradeoffs, testing, feedback, and what you would improve
- Experience working with others on a technical project and incorporating feedback from peers, mentors, teachers, users, or collaborators
- Ability to learn unfamiliar systems through independent research and work with a mentor or subject matter expert
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Ability to meet the employment eligibility, minimum age, and documentation requirements for the role’s location by the internship start date. Final contract language is subject to Legal review
More about this role
Stripe is a technology company focused on improving the conditions for economic growth and prosperity. We build programmable financial infrastructure, rethinking from first principles how financial services should work, to make it easier and cheaper for any business to start and scale. More than 10 million businesses build on Stripe, spanning the economic frontier, from solo founders to established enterprises, united by a practical focus on growth. The most ambitious companies in the world use Stripe as core infrastructure to grow faster. They process trillions of dollars a year on Stripe, equivalent to around 1.6% of global GDP. While economic growth makes everyone better off, open markets also enable greater variety. When any business can easily serve a global customer base, the quality and diversity of products in the world increase, and craft and creativity are unleashed into the smallest niches.
Our own growth is wholly contingent on the success of the businesses building on Stripe. We therefore invest back into our technology at an unusual rate. We make upgrades to our products every single day to deliver compounding gains to our customers. We maintain some of the most...
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