Software Engineer Intern at Stripe (Bengaluru) | University Program

About Stripe

Stripe is a technology company focused on improving conditions for economic growth and prosperity. We build programmable financial infrastructure, rethinking from first principles how financial services should work, making it easier and cheaper for any business to start and scale. More than 10 million businesses build on Stripe, from solo founders to established enterprises, united by a practical focus on growth. The most ambitious companies in the world use Stripe as core infrastructure, processing trillions of dollars a year, equivalent to around 1.6% of global GDP.

We invest back into our technology at an unusual rate. We make upgrades to our products every day to deliver compounding gains to our customers. We maintain some of the most reliable APIs on the internet and build entirely new pieces of financial infrastructure to enable new ideas.

What you'll do

As an intern at Stripe, you'll work on projects across our stack that directly impact how millions of businesses operate. You'll own problems end to end with support from your manager and teammates. It's an opportunity to work alongside some of the most creative and technically rigorous engineers in the industry and learn how to ship high-quality work at scale.

Recent intern projects include expanding Stripe's Payments Foundation Model capabilities, building more approachable fraud controls, creating safer payouts, and developing user-facing solutions that prevent costly pricing mistakes and simplify merchant checkout setup.

Responsibilities

• Operate as a real member of the team you join; engage in team discussions, decisions, and the technical design process.
• Write software that will be used in production and has meaningful impact on Stripe's business and users.
• Give and receive technical feedback through code reviews or design discussions.
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to proactively seek and incorporate feedback.
• Learn quickly by asking great questions, working effectively with your intern manager and teammates, communicating the status of your work clearly, and building with the latest AI tooling.

Who you are

• Ambitious builder: You're energized by building solutions without clear precedent and solving problems with far-reaching consequences.
• Rigorous thinker: You appreciate that things worth doing are rarely simple. You enjoy working on problems that have never been tackled before.
• Adaptable problem solver: You adapt quickly and treat obstacles as opportunities.

Minimum requirements

• A strong fundamental understanding of computer science through pursuit of a Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, math, or a related discipline.
• Experience and familiarity with programming, either through side projects or classwork. We work mostly in Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, and Scala.
• Experience from previous internships or other multi-person projects, including open source contributions, that demonstrate evaluating and receiving feedback from mentors, peers, and stakeholders.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar systems and form an understanding of those systems through independent research and working with a mentor or subject matter experts.
• Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate development while applying rigorous critical thinking and professional judgement to review, refine, and validate all outputs.

Preferred qualifications

• At least 1 year of university education, or equivalent work experience.
• One or more areas of specialized knowledge (frontend, backend, infrastructure or other technologies) balanced with general skills and knowledge.
• Experience writing high quality pull requests with good test coverage, and working knowledge to complete projects with minimal defects.
• Familiarity with navigating and managing your work in new code bases, with multiple languages.
• Clear written communication skills, with the ability to write clearly to explain your work to stakeholders, team members, and other Stripes.