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
You'll build and operate distributed systems that move billing data between Metronome and the platforms our customers use to run their finances. The work combines product engineering and reliability. You'll ship features that customers ask for directly, and you'll strengthen the event-driven pipelines that handle large invoicing spikes every month-end. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- This is a Staff level role, so we typically target 10+ years of professional experience building and operating backend systems in production
- Experience designing and integrating with third-party APIs, including handling failures, retries, and data consistency across systems
- Experience with distributed or event-driven systems, such as message queues, streams, or workflow engines
- Experience owning services in production, including monitoring, on-call, and incident response
- Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to engineers and to people outside engineering
More about this role
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.
In this role, you'd be joining the Alloy Integrations team. We own how Metronome's customers collect payments and recognize revenue. We build and run the integrations that connect Metronome's usage-based billing platform to the systems businesses depend on to get paid: Stripe invoicing and payments, cloud marketplaces (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud), ERP systems like NetSuite and QuickBooks, and CRM systems like Salesforce. We also bring Stripe products such as Checkout into Metronome, so customers can move from contract to cash in one place.
Our team helps Stripe increase the GDP of the internet by making sure every invoice reaches the right system and every payment is collected and accounted...
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