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title: 'Software Engineer, Money Movement at Stripe'
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# Software Engineer, Money Movement at Stripe

- **Company:** Stripe
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2025-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=7208537

## Job description

## Who we are

## About Stripe

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.

## About the team

Exact team matching for one of the subteams within the following orgs will begin during final stages. If you have a strong preference for a specific org, please flag this to your recruiter during your recruiter screen.

Money as a Service (MaaS)

Money as a Service is a new org within Stripe which is all about making money programmable through funding, FX'ing, sending, and spending. The Money as a Service (MaaS) teams build the APIs and product experience that allow Stripe users to perform these money management capabilities on Stripe globally.

We've recently launched several products.

- Multicurrency balances
- Global Payouts

Payments and Risk

The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. Optimized Checkout and Link teams work to create best-in-class checkout experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and drive merchant conversion rates. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding Stripe's brand and financial stability.

## What you'll do

We're looking for backend, frontend-leaning fullstack, and fullstack engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users, regardless of whether they're an end user, developer, or partner.

## Responsibilities

- Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, user experiences, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
- Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Mentor engineers to help them grow
- Meet directly with our users to help shape product changes
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

## Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

## Minimum requirements

- 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
- Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
- Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and an entrepreneurial mindset
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

## Preferred qualifications

- Experience building user interfaces
- Experience with user research or interaction design
- Experience designing and building APIs

## About Stripe

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial services / payments infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B – from startups to global enterprises (e.g., Le Monde, trucking companies)
- Mission: “Increase the GDP of the internet” by making online commerce easier and more accessible

## Products & Services
- **Stripe Payments**: Accept and optimise payments globally – online and in person; supports 135+ currencies and payment methods [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Billing**: Manage subscriptions, invoices, and recurring revenue; over 200 million active subscriptions managed [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Connect**: Embed payments into platforms and marketplaces
- **Stripe Atlas**: Incorporate a company, get everything needed to fundraise and start selling
- **Stripe Terminal**: In-person payments with customisable card readers
- **Stripe Issuing**: Create and manage a card issuing programme
- **Stripe Climate**: Automatically contribute a fraction of revenue to carbon removal

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $1.9 trillion in payments volume processed in 2025 [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Infrastructure underpins more than 1% of global GDP [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - Over 8,000 employees across 25+ offices worldwide [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs)
  - 99.999% historical uptime for Stripe services [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
  - Deploys 10,000+ times per day while maintaining five 9s of reliability [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - 135+ currencies and payment methods supported [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reliability**: Processes massive transaction volumes with 99.999% uptime – a level of trust few competitors match.
- **Developer‑First Experience**: Obsessive focus on API design, documentation, and ease of integration; “start with a blank screen, work until a product is ready, polish until exceptional” [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Global Reach**: Supports 135+ currencies and payment methods, with local offices in 25+ cities to serve regional needs.
- **Network Effects**: The more businesses use Stripe, the more data and infrastructure advantages accrue, making it harder to switch.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Agentic Commerce**: Building economic infrastructure for AI, including monetisation through agentic commerce [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Crypto & Stablecoins**: Enabling borderless money movement with stablecoins and crypto [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Platform Expansion**: Continuing to add financial tools (billing, issuing, terminal, climate) that work individually or together.
- **Globalisation**: Deepening presence in markets like Japan, India, and Latin America.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Intense and kind” – high expectations paired with a supportive, transparent environment. Weekly all‑hands with senior leaders; decisions based on idea quality, not seniority [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Growth & Ownership**: “Promotions are tied to demonstrated impact, not tenure.” Employees get substantial responsibility early, often working outside their domain [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Work Model**: Hybrid/remote‑friendly – two main HQs (San Francisco & Dublin) plus 25+ offices, and many Stripes work from home or coworking spaces [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, mental health, financial advisory, family planning, and parental leave. Education team provides onboarding and ongoing expert‑led courses [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits).
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Employee‑created resource groups (Stripe Communities), accommodations for disabilities, and a commitment to equal opportunity [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).

## Sources
1. [stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
2. [stripe.com/jobs](https://stripe.com/jobs)
3. [stripe.com/](https://stripe.com/)
4. [stripe.com/jobs/search](https://stripe.com/jobs/search)
5. [stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits)

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