Stripe: Software Engineer, Intern

Job Description

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform powering payments and growth for millions of companies—from startups to global enterprises. As a Software Engineer, Intern, you’ll join product teams building systems that increase the GDP of the internet. Every intern works on a real roadmap project that ships to production, not a side exercise. You’ll design, implement, test, and iterate on features that touch core services, data pipelines, developer tooling, and user-facing experiences. Surrounded by engineers who prize high standards, you’ll learn modern software practices while contributing to secure, reliable systems used at global scale.

Your internship centers on impact and learning. You’ll gain hands-on experience with systems design, testing strategies, and multi-language codebases while collaborating with peers, mentors, and cross-functional partners. Projects span rebuilding high-throughput services, improving service discovery, refining observability, and elevating customer-facing flows like clearer Checkout error messages. You’ll practice writing high-quality pull requests, add comprehensive tests, and participate in design reviews—growing technically while helping Stripe deliver faster, safer, and more intuitive products for internet businesses.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build production-grade software: scope tasks with your mentor, implement features, write tests, and ship iteratively with measurable user impact.

• Participate in design & code reviews, incorporating feedback to improve architecture, readability, performance, and operational safety.

• Contribute to backend or full-stack services across languages (e.g., Java, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Scala, Go), following Stripe’s engineering guidelines.

• Improve reliability: add metrics, logs, and alerts; reduce toil through automation; and raise test coverage for critical paths.

• Collaborate with product, design, and partner teams to clarify requirements, align on trade-offs, and deliver customer-centric outcomes.

• Enhance data and platform components, including streaming, caching, and service discovery, to improve latency and throughput.

• Write clear technical docs and PR descriptions that explain intent, edge cases, testing strategy, and rollback considerations.

• Investigate issues using observability tools; propose fixes, write repros, and validate with targeted unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.

• Contribute to developer experience by refining build tooling, CI workflows, and local environments for faster feedback loops.

• Practice secure development: follow least-privilege principles, handle secrets correctly, and address security review feedback promptly.

Requirements & Eligibility

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field with strong CS fundamentals (DSA, OS, networking).

• Familiarity with one or more languages used at Stripe (Java, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Scala, Go); ability to learn new languages quickly.

• Working knowledge of SQL and experience building projects (coursework, open source, hackathons) that demonstrate problem solving and code quality.

• Exposure to distributed systems concepts and web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS); bonus for understanding TCP/IP, SSH, and TLS/SSL.

• Experience writing unit/integration tests and creating well-scoped pull requests with clear test plans and success criteria.

• Comfortable navigating large, multi-language codebases; can read unfamiliar code and form a mental model through docs and exploration.

• Collaborative communicator who seeks and applies feedback via design discussions, code reviews, and async documentation.

• Growth mindset: asks great questions, learns quickly, and balances shipping value with maintainability and operational safety.

• Bonus: prior internship or team project experience; familiarity with big data or streaming platforms (e.g., Apache Pulsar, Flink, Spark).

• Bonus: understanding of frontend fundamentals (how a service handles an HTTP request, client–server flows) to work across the stack when needed.

Expected Salary

For software engineering internships in Bengaluru at top product companies, monthly stipends typically range from ₹80,000 to ₹1,80,000, depending on the candidate’s seniority, skill depth, and project scope. Stripe does not publish India pay ranges for every role, but compensation is generally competitive with leading tech internships and may also include additional benefits and perks tied to performance and in-office participation.

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