Economics jobs in United Kingdom

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.

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: funding, FX’ing, sending, spending … The Money as a Service (MaaS) teams build the APIs and product experience which allow Stripe users to perform these money management capabilities on Stripe globally.

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.

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.

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

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.

2‑12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes 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, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success

Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Experience building user interfaces

Experience with user research or interaction design

Experience designing and building APIs

Office‑assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in‑office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in‑office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in‑person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is £81,200 - £156,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.