Software Engineer, Intern

Role overview

Software Engineer, Intern at Stripe

Responsibilities

• You’ll own problems end to end with the support of your manager and teammates.

Required qualifications

• <p>At least 1 year of university education, or equivalent work experience.</p>

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru

About the employer

• <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3>
• More than 10 million <a href="https://stripe.com/customers">businesses</a> build on Stripe, spanning the economic frontier—from solo founders to established enterprises—united by a practical focus on growth.
• They process trillions of dollars a year on Stripe, equivalent to around 1.6% of global GDP.
• We make <a href="https://stripe.com/roadmap">upgrades to our products</a> every single day to deliver compounding gains to our customers.
• And our significant advances in <a href="https://stripe.com/radar">risk and fraud</a> infrastructure over many years are making the internet economy safer and more accessible. </p>
• In working with so many (especially the new and innovative ones), we think that Stripe is one of the very best places to learn about how the world works.</p>
• Recent intern projects include expanding Stripe’s Payments Foundation Model capabilities to improve generalized anomaly detection, building more approachable fraud controls, creating safer payouts, and developing user-facing solutions that prevent costly pricing mistakes and make merchant checkout setup easier.</p>
• Successful Stripes are deeply curious, and prefer the joy of discovery to the comfort of certainty.</p>
• <p>Clear written communication skills, with the ability to write clearly to explain your work to stakeholders, team members, and other Stripes.</p>

Additional role details

• <h2><strong>Who we are</strong></h2>
• <p>Stripe is a technology company focused on improving the conditions for economic growth and prosperity.
• We build programmable financial infrastructure, rethinking from first principles how financial services should work, to make it easier and cheaper for any business to start and scale.
• The most ambitious companies in the world use Stripe as core infrastructure to grow faster.
• While economic growth makes everyone better off, open markets also enable greater variety.
• When any business can easily serve a global customer base, the quality and diversity of products in the world increase, and craft and creativity are unleashed into the smallest niches.
• Our own growth is wholly contingent on the success of the businesses building on Stripe.
• We therefore invest back into our technology at an unusual rate.
• We maintain some of the most <a href="https://status.stripe.com/">reliable APIs</a> on the internet.
• We build entirely new <a href="https://tempo.xyz/">pieces</a> of <a href="https://mpp.dev/">financial</a> <a href="https://joinopenstandard.com/">infrastructure</a> to enable new ideas.
• <p>Though people at Stripe don’t tend to take themselves seriously, Stripe is a fairly serious place: our customers are depending on us for their livelihoods.
• We admire ambition, intensity, curiosity, humility, and rigor.
• The most effective people become knowledgeable about many domains besides their own.
• Any company is an applied exercise in understanding some aspect of society or the market.
• <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2>
• <p>As an intern at Stripe you’ll work on projects across our stack that directly impact the way millions of businesses operate.
• It’s an opportunity to work alongside some of the most creative and technically rigorous engineers in the industry and learn how to ship high-quality work at scale.
• By contributing to Stripe’s codebase you’ll work across domains that give you insight into how the global economy works.
• <p>Our internship program is competitive and the expectations are high. </p>
• <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3>
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• <p>Operate as a real member of the team you join; engage in team discussions, decisions, and the technical design process.</p>
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• <p>Write software that will be used in production, and has meaningful impact to Stripe’s business and users.</p>
• <p>Give and receive technical feedback through code reviews or design discussions</p>
• <p>Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to proactively seek and incorporate feedback.</p>
• <p>Learn quickly by asking great questions, working with your intern manager and teammates effectively, communicating the status of your work clearly, and building with the latest AI tooling.</p>
• </ul>
• <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2>
• <p>Ambitious builder: You’re energized by building solutions without clear precedent and solving problems with far-reaching consequences.
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• <p>Rigorous thinker: You appreciate that things worth doing are rarely simple.
• You enjoy working on problems that have never been tackled before. </p>
• <p>Adaptable problem solver: You adapt quickly and treat obstacles as opportunities.
• At Stripe we embrace kindness while encouraging Stripes to take measured risks and act boldly, even in the absence of consensus.</p>
• <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3>
• <p>A strong fundamental understanding of computer science through pursuit of a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, math, or a related discipline. </p>
• <p>Experience and familiarity with programming, either through side projects or classwork.
• We work mostly in Ruby, Java, Javascript, Go, and Scala.
• We believe new programming languages can be learned if the fundamentals and general knowledge are present.</p>
• <p>Experience from previous internships or other multi-person projects, including open source contributions, that demonstrate evaluating and receiving feedback from mentors, peers, and stakeholders.</p>
• <p>Ability to learn unfamiliar systems and form an understanding of those systems, through independent research and working with a mentor or subject matter experts. </p>
• <p>Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate development while applying rigorous critical thinking and professional judgement to review, refine, and validate all outputs.</p>
• <h3><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></h3>
• <p>One or more areas of specialized knowledge (frontend, backend, infrastructure or other technologies) balanced with general skills and knowledge. </p>
• <p>Experience writing high quality pull requests, with good test coverage, and working knowledge to complete projects with minimal defects.</p>
• <p>Familiarity with navigating and managing your work in new code bases, with multiple languages.</p>