Senior Software Engineer, Docs Product

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.

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.

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