Stripe is hiring. https://stripe.com/jobs I've got some thoughts:
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Why join Stripe? It's plausibly among the most leveraged opportunities anywhere to contribute to your core goals over the next N years, by growing the GDP of the Internet.
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This company covers a sprawling remit of human behavior: everywhere the Internet touches commerce. There's a fractal nature to both the problem and our operations. We abstract so much that our users probably don't realize how much work is being done.
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Today, approximately a squazillion dollars will move between our users and their customers. Every financial rail, every web page, every cron job, every customer-facing email, every regulatory filing, and every planning document that did that: written by someone like you.
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When I was a customer of Stripe, I loved how it looks like magic. As an employee, I love how there is... no magic. We get the same blank screen everyone starts with. Then we fill it.
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There is an expectation, messaged early and often, that no part of our operations are "not your job." One gets to both see how the sausage is made everywhere and (often) contribute to it.
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Stripe's internal mailing lists may be a better repository of knowledge about the world than the university I attended. (Virtually all strategic work of the company ends up on mailing lists visible to all employees.)
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I love shipped emails, which go out to the whole company when a team completes a discrete unit of work. Topics covered include test performance, credit card decline rates, and Things Which Ruby Technically Allows But Which We Won't Anymore, For Good Reasons.
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I love our internal systems, annoyingly for the purpose of this tweet including Trade Secret Internal App (TM) which I retroactively wish I had had at every company in my career and will certainly implement at every future one, because every software company should have it.
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That's not a trade secret; we use livegrep. (Which is amazing.)
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Replying to @patio11 @xtremalraven
Let's reverse engineer this one. Theoretically, if I were to build a life-changing tool that would be extremely useful for me as a programmer, in what general area would I build? Also
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