Staff Software Engineer, Alloy Integrations

Who we areAbout StripeStripe 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 teamIn this role, you'd be joining the Alloy Integrations team. We own how Metronome's customers collect payments and recognize revenue. We build and run the integrations that connect Metronome's usage-based billing platform to the systems businesses depend on to get paid: Stripe invoicing and payments, cloud marketplaces (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud), ERP systems like NetSuite and QuickBooks, and CRM systems like Salesforce. We also bring Stripe products such as Checkout into Metronome, so customers can move from contract to cash in one place.Our team helps Stripe increase the GDP of the internet by making sure every invoice reaches the right system and every payment is collected and accounted for correctly, at scale. We focus on two areas:Invoicing: collection, dunning, and invoice deliveryQuote-to-cash automation: connecting the full journey from a signed deal to recognized revenueWhat you'll doYou'll build and operate distributed systems that move billing data between Metronome and the platforms our customers use to run their finances. The work combines product engineering and reliability. You'll ship features that customers ask for directly, and you'll strengthen the event-driven pipelines that handle large invoicing spikes every month-end.You'll work closely with our product manager, with partner engineering teams that own contracts, usage rating, and invoice finalization, with solutions architects who build ERP integrations with customers, and with technical support engineers who work with customers every day. In your first few months, you'll ship a customer-facing improvement to one of our integrations, join the on-call rotation, and take ownership of one of our core systems.ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and maintain integrations between Metronome and external billing, payments, marketplace, ERP, and CRM platformsBuild reliable, event-driven systems for invoice delivery, payment workflows, and status sync, with safe retries, rollbacks, and reconciliationShip features that help customers control how they invoice, collect, and account for revenue, from design through launchImprove observability and automated repair across our systems so problems are caught and fixed before customers notice themParticipate in an on-call rotation and lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-up work for the systems the team ownsPlan and carry out migrations and changes to existing integrations without disrupting customer billingPartner with product, support, solutions architecture, and other engineering teams to scope work and represent customer needsWho you areWe'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 requirementsThis is a Staff level role, so we typically target 10+ years of professional experience building and operating backend systems in productionExperience designing and integrating with third-party APIs, including handling failures, retries, and data consistency across systemsExperience with distributed or event-driven systems, such as message queues, streams, or workflow enginesExperience owning services in production, including monitoring, on-call, and incident responseAbility to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to engineers and to people outside engineeringPreferred qualificationsExperience with billing, invoicing, payments, tax, or other financial systems where correctness mattersExperience with AWS serverless and data services such as Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, or Step FunctionsFamiliarity with ERP or CRM platforms such as NetSuite, QuickBooks, or Salesforce, or with cloud marketplace billingExperience with GraphQL APIs and relational databases such as PostgresExperience leading cross-team projects or large migrations