As a platform company powering businesses all over the world, Stripe processes payments, runs marketplaces, detects fraud, helps entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, builds world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. Stripe’s backend engineers work on the business logic for all of that. 

The EMEA Payments team is working towards a future in which any business across the world can offer the full range of payment methods. The team builds, integrates and runs EMEA payment methods processing Billions of Euros annually. The team resolves complexities across a fragmented market by surfacing one simple way to accept these payments. Engineers on the team work to expand the reach of Stripe’s global payments network, design and implement novel payment capabilities, and deliver best-in-class reliability and performance.

Joining the EMEA Payments team in Dublin will put you right at the heart of Stripe’s EMEA strategy: Stripe is dual-headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin making Dublin the engineering hub for EMEA with plans to grow the office by at least 1000+ Stripes over the next 5 years.

We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building and operating highly scalable and reliable products and systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; you have exquisite attention to detail; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems. You’ll get to work with other engineers to deliver impactful projects that span various parts of the system.

You Will:

• Lead impactful engineering projects to improve the scalability, reliability and performance of Stripe’s payment methods across the board.
• Lead incident response, review and remediation in a way that is blameless, sustainable and data-driven.
• Take an engineering-first approach to operating Stripe’s payment methods, by automating operational tasks and proactively identifying and addressing risks.
• Improve how we approach designing and building reliable systems by running table top scenarios, operational readiness reviews and consulting on reliability best practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations.

• Have a passion for reliable and performant systems, and care deeply about the end-user experience.
• Have a strong understanding of reliability practices, distributed systems, and cloud native architectures and/or have experience working as an SRE for critical systems.
• Think about systems and services and write high quality code. We work mostly in Ruby and Java, with some Scala and Go. However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise (for example, ¼ of Stripes work in a country that’s different from the one they grew up in). Almost every role at Stripe collaborates with some engineers, from Sales and Support in sharing feedback from our customers; to Legal and Accounting in supporting our systems for tracking money movement and reporting around the world.