Stripe

The payments software that lets websites and apps take money online. Used by huge companies and tiny start-ups, with an office in London and early-career routes advertised across its teams.

About Stripe

Stripe builds the software that lets a business take payments online. If a website or app asks you to enter your card details, there is a good chance Stripe is handling that payment in the background. Developers can add payments to their products with a few lines of code, which is why Stripe is popular with start-ups and with well-known names alike. Its tools also cover billing, fraud prevention, sales-tax calculation and card-reader hardware.

Stripe was founded in Palo Alto, California, in 2009 or 2010 (Wikipedia gives both) by two Irish brothers, John and Patrick Collison. Patrick is the chief executive and John is the president. The company has two headquarters, one in South San Francisco and one in Dublin, and it also has an office in London, where it hires.

Its best-known products include the core payments tools, Connect for platforms and marketplaces, Radar for spotting fraud, Billing, Terminal for in-person payments, Capital for lending to businesses, Atlas for setting up a company and Link for saving payment details. Wikipedia lists Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, Spotify, BMW and OpenAI among the businesses that use it. In the UK it has invested in the digital bank Monzo and partnered with UK fintech ION.

We did not find a formal company mission statement in the pages we read.

For young people, Stripe's emerging talent page describes internships, apprenticeships and early-career roles across engineering, product, data science, design, finance, operations and sales, with mentors and an education stipend. The page itself does not name locations. A new-graduate software engineer role in London has been advertised, so check the open-roles search for current UK openings.

What they do

• {'desc': 'Developer tools to accept card and other payments on websites and apps.', 'title': 'Online payments'}
• {'desc': 'Subscriptions and invoices for recurring revenue.', 'title': 'Billing and invoicing'}
• {'desc': 'Radar spots suspicious payments.', 'title': 'Fraud prevention'}
• {'desc': 'Stripe Atlas, Capital and Terminal for company set-up, funding and in-person payments.', 'title': 'Business tools'}

Key facts

• Founded: 2009 or 2010 (sources differ) in Palo Alto, USA, by John and Patrick Collison
• Headquarters: South San Francisco, USA and Dublin, Ireland
• UK presence: London office; London roles advertised (stripe.com/gb/careers)
• Early careers: internships, apprenticeships and new-grad roles (stripe.com/careers/emerging-talent)

Website: stripe.com