About this role
Job title: Golang Software Engineer
About the Role This role focuses on shaping the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power the majority of Stripe's payment volume. You’ll be the Golang expert on the team, collaborating to ensure idiomatic experiences and helping drive an in-house code-generation framework that powers SDKs, docs, and Stripe Shell.
What You'll Do
- Be the Golang expert on the team, representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic
- Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work toward a future where we open source it to make it easier for third-party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries
- Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process
- Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe
- Support our users reaching out to us on the open-source GitHub repositories for our SDKs
- Add support for new language features in SDKs
- Help lead the API design process at Stripe, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that surface through our SDKs
- Collaborate, mentor, and provide support to other team members
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years in engineering across a wide range of products
- 3+ years of experience as a Golang software engineer
- An interest in working with multiple programming languages
- A passion for API design and developer experience
Nice to Have
- Experience in PHP and Ruby
- Experience building libraries and/or SDKs
- Knowledge of OpenAPI spec and protobuf
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: CA$135,200 - CA$258,000 per year (CAD)
- Benefits and perks include equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses, retirement plans, health benefits, and wellness stipends