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Software Engineer, Revenue and Financial Automation

Stripe · Chicago, IL · Remote available · 8421 RevSuite Foundations

Posted Oct 3, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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Likely interview questions for this role

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About your past

Tell me about a production bug you debugged across several services. How did you find it?

What they are checking: Whether they can trace problems methodically through a distributed system.

Describe a project where you shaped the product, not just implemented it.

What they are checking: Whether they think about users and business needs, which the posting expects of engineers.

What would you do

A product manager wants a feature shipped this week, but you think the data model needs rework first. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they can weigh speed against long-term correctness and explain the tradeoff clearly.

How do you make a large change to a financial system safely when users depend on it every day?

What they are checking: Whether they use migrations, flags and verification to change critical systems without breaking them.

About the work

How would you design a billing system that handles subscriptions, usage-based charges and mid-cycle plan changes?

What they are checking: Whether they can model real billing complexity like proration and metered usage correctly.

How would you make sure a customer is never double-charged, even when requests are retried?

What they are checking: Whether they understand idempotency and why correctness matters so much when money moves.

How should a system represent money in code, and what goes wrong if you get it wrong?

What they are checking: Whether they avoid floating-point and rounding mistakes that create real financial errors.

Walk me through how you'd design usage-based billing ingestion for millions of events per day.

What they are checking: Whether they can design for scale, accuracy and late or duplicate events together.

How do you test code that deals with dates, time zones and billing periods?

What they are checking: Whether they anticipate edge cases that cause billing mistakes for real customers.

How would you design dunning, meaning retrying failed payments to reduce involuntary churn?

What they are checking: Whether they understand recovery tools and how retry timing affects both users and revenue.

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The full job description

As published by Stripe.

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 The Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) organization at Stripe is building a modern, revenue-focused, financial management platform for fast-growing, digital-native companies. Hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and types use Stripe Billing to collect revenue for recurring and one-time payments across a variety of different pricing models—from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, delivering Usage-Based Billing, and providing recovery and retention tools to prevent customer churn. What you'll do As an engineer on the team, you'll be responsible for shaping and building a suite of products that let our users model and operate their business more efficiently. You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship code every day. In this cross-functional role, you'll collaborate with experts in infrastructure, security, design, and operations to build business-critical internal and external features that power Stripe users around the world. Responsibilities • Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high-growth needs of our company and customers for years to come • Deliver value through a strong collaborative, user-first approach with stakeholders and customers • Mentor engineers to help them grow • Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack 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 • 5–12+ years of experience in backend or platform software development • Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++, etc.) • Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems • Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work across work streams within your team and contribute to your peers' success • Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset Preferred qualifications • Familiarity with event-driven architectures • Experience with subscription management, usage-based billing, or financial reporting systems • Interest in financial infrastructure and how businesses manage their revenue operations • Direct leadership and mentorship experience

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