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This belief is as true today as it was when we first wrote this line on our website when we were ten people. Our engineering blog captures how, what, and why we code at Stripe. Engineering Can AI agents build real Stripe integrations? We built a benchmark to find out March 2, 2026 Carol Liang API Standards Kevin Ho API Standards State-of-the-art LLMs can now solve a majority of scoped coding problems, but it’s an open question whether they can fully autonomously manage software engineering projects. We spent months building evaluation environments to benchmark how well AI agents can create real Stripe integrations. Read more   Engineering How we built it: Real-time analytics for Stripe Billing September 16, 2025 Reed Trevelyan Revenue Intelligence Among global business leaders surveyed, 84% agree that adapting pricing quickly will be a key competitive advantage. Our new real-time analytics system for Stripe Billing helps them spot customer trends just as they emerge. Read more   Engineering How we built it: Jurisdiction resolution for Stripe Tax July 10, 2025 Erich Rentz Tax Product Danko Komlen Tax Engineering Stripe’s users rely on us to calculate tax correctly and quickly, no matter where a transaction happens. Our new jurisdiction resolution system (JRS) is a faster, less resource-intensive solution to the challenging problem of determining tax obligations in places with complicated, overlapping tax jurisdictions. Read more   Engineering How Stripe’s document databases supported 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime data migrations June 6, 2024 Jimmy Morzaria Database Infrastructure Suraj Narkhede Database Infrastructure In this blog post we’ll share an overview of Stripe’s database infrastructure and discuss the design and application of the Data Movement Platform. Read more   Engineering Test clocks: How we made it easier to test Stripe Billing integrations May 9, 2024 Ji Huang Stripe Billing Stripe Billing allows businesses to manage customer relationships with recurring payments, usage triggers, and other customizable features. Read more   Engineering Shepherd: How Stripe adapted Chronon to scale ML feature development April 15, 2024 Ben Mears ML Features This blog discusses the technical details of how we built Shepherd and how we are expanding the capabilities of Chronon to meet Stripe’s scale. Read more   Engineering Ledger: Stripe’s system for tracking and validating money movement February 16, 2024 Ilya Ganelin Ledger Platform In this blog post, we’ll share technical details on how we built this state-of-the-art money movement tracking system, and describe how teams at Stripe interact with the data quality metrics that underlie our payment processing network. Read more   Engineering Simplifying payment methods code in our new API version August 17, 2023 David Gouldin Payment Methods You can now configure payment method settings from the Dashboard—no code required. We call this integration path dynamic payment methods.  Read more   Engineering How we built it: Stripe Radar March 29, 2023 Ryan Drapeau Payment Intelligence Radar is Stripe’s fraud prevention solution. This post covers what makes Radar so powerful and some of the key decisions we’ve made—and lessons we’ve learned—over the almost seven years we’ve been building it. Read more   Engineering How Stripe builds interactive docs with Markdoc September 13, 2022 Ryan Paul Docs Product Delivering a good user experience without compromising the authoring experience required us to develop an authoring format that enables writers to express interactivity and simple page logic without mixing code and content. While developing Markdoc, we learned how to balance interactivity, customization, and authoring productivity while undertaking a major overhaul of our documentation platform. Read more   Engineering Migrating millions of lines of code to TypeScript May 20, 2022 Andrew Lunny Developer Productivity On Sunday, March 6, we migrated Stripe’s largest JavaScript codebase from Flow to TypeScript. In a single pull request, we converted more than 3.7 million lines of code. The next day, hundreds of engineers came in to start writing TypeScript for their projects. Read more   Engineering Fast builds, secure builds. Choose two. May 4, 2022 Sushain Cherivirala Software Engineer, Build Team Stripe's continuous integration (CI) system is responsible for orchestrating build pipelines and executing the tens of thousands of test suites that our engineers depend on to validate their changes. We lean on a combination of open-source technologies and novel engineering to deliver a CI system that is performant, secure, and delivers a delightful developer experience. Read more   Engineering Sorbet: Stripe’s type checker for Ruby March 28, 2022 Jake Zimmerman Developer Productivity Sorbet has been a crucial part of Stripe’s growth in recent years. Today, Sorbet runs over our entire Ruby codebase, currently amounting to over 15 million lines of code spread across 150,000 Ruby files. Sorbet increases productivity and fosters a collective engineering culture. Here’s why we love Sorbet. Read more   Engineering Stripe’s payments APIs: The first 10 years December 15, 2020 Michelle Bu Payments Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. This post provides the context and conceptual frameworks behind our API design—and the milestones that led to the PaymentIntents API . Read more   Engineering To design and develop an interactive globe September 1, 2020 Nick Jones Web Presence We set out to build a globe that inspires a sense of awe, invites people to explore, and conceals details for discovery. Along the way, we evaluated existing tools, designed our own solution, solved four interesting technical challenges, and improved the way we collaborate. Here’s what we learned. Read more   Engineering Stripe’s remote engineering hub, one year in May 28, 2020 Jay Shirley Engineering Last May, Stripe launched our remote engineering hub, a virtual office coequal with our physical engineering offices in San Francisco, Seattle, Dublin, and Singapore. It’s now the backbone of a new working model for the whole company. Here is what we’ve learned. Read more   Engineering Similarity clustering to catch fraud rings February 20, 2020 Andrew Tausz Risk Intelligence Stripe enables businesses in many countries worldwide to onboard easily so they can accept payments as quickly as possible. Stripe’s scale makes our platform a common target for payments fraud and cybercrime, so we’ve built a deep understanding of the patterns bad actors use. We take these threats seriously because they harm both our users and our ecosystem; every fraudulent transaction we circumvent keeps anyone impacted from having a bad day. Read more   Engineering Introducing the Stripe CLI November 5, 2019 Tomer Elmalem Engineering Manager, Developer Products Building and testing a Stripe integration can require frequent switching between the terminal, your code editor, and the Dashboard. Today, we’re excited to launch the Stripe command-line interface (CLI). It lets you interact with Stripe right from the terminal and makes it easier to build, test, and manage your integration. Read more   Engineering Designing accessible color systems October 15, 2019 Daryl Koopersmith Design Wilson Miner Design Color contrast is an important aspect of accessibility. Good contrast makes it easier for people with visual impairments to use products, and helps in imperfect conditions like low-light environments or older screens. With this in mind, we recently updated the colors in our user interfaces to be more accessible. Read more   Engineering Singapore engineering hub September 26, 2019 Piruze Sabuncu Revenue & Growth Stripe launched in Singapore in 2016. Since then, we’ve seen strong traction, and are proud to work with some of the fastest-growing companies in the region, including Grab, Mobike, and Carousell. Today, we’re increasing our investment: we’re very excited to announce that Singapore is joining Seattle, Dublin, and San Francisco to become Stripe’s fourth global engineering hub. Read more   1 2 3 Next Subscribe to the Stripe Blog Stay connected with Stripe and receive new blog posts in your inbox. Something went wrong on our end. Sorry about that. You can still contact us at sales@stripe.com . We're sorry, but we're unable to serve your request. Subscribe   Stripe will handle your data pursuant to its Privacy Policy By submitting this form, you acknowledge and consent that your personal data will be processed in accordance with Stripe's Privacy Policy and that your data will be stored outside of China in accordance with Stripe's Privacy Policy . Thank you for subscribing. You'll receive blog updates in your inbox soon. Like this post? Join our team. Stripe builds financial tools and economic infrastructure for the internet. View roles   Have any feedback or questions? 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