Senior Software Engineer, Docs Product

Stripe · New York, NY · Posted

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. 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.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical design and architecture of major platform initiatives, author design documents and build consensus across engineering teams.
  • Define technical roadmaps for complex, multi-quarter projects that span multiple teams.
  • Make critical architectural decisions for company documentation infrastructure, balancing scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
  • Evaluate and set direction for integrating emerging technologies, including AI/LLM capabilities, into company documentation platforms and authoring tools.
  • Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices and technical guidelines for the team and broader organization.
  • Partner with engineering teams across the company to understand documentation needs and design integrated solutions.
  • Design, build and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems.
  • Contribute high-quality code across the full stack and navigate codebases with different languages and tools.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues and improve system reliability.
  • Take ownership of system health and incident response.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field, plus four (4) years of experience in Software Engineering.

Must have four (4) years of experience in each of the following:

  • Working in a full stack environment with a focus on Ruby, Java, Typescript or Bazel;
  • Working as a technical lead for large projects; defining roadmaps for projects that span >6 months and across several teams;

Must have two (2) years of experience in each of the following:

  • Authoring and reviewing technical design documents and driving architectural decisions for complex systems while collaborating with junior colleagues;
  • Building and scaling automated testing and validation frameworks;
  • Designing and implementing persistent data models using MongoDB; and
  • Implementing emerging technical standards for AI/LLMs.

Salary: $190,400 - $285,600/yr

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available.

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. NY59

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About this role

Stripe is hiring for the role of Senior Software Engineer, Docs Product in New York, NY. The title points to a senior role. It mentions TypeScript, Java, MongoDB, LLMs, Product roadmap and Testing.

Skills mentioned

  • TypeScript
  • Java
  • MongoDB
  • LLMs
  • Product roadmap
  • Testing

How to prepare your application

  • Use these exact words in your resume where they are true for you: TypeScript, Java, MongoDB, LLMs and Product roadmap. Applicant tracking systems match on them.
  • Pick two or three projects that use the technologies named in this posting and describe what you built and its result in one line each.
  • Be ready to explain your own code: why you chose a design, what went wrong and how you fixed it.
  • Practise the basics the role needs (data structures, API design, debugging) and keep a link to your code on GitHub.

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