[vfclists]

How does a payment service wind up with over a 1000 engineers?

I understand that "engineers" may not mean "developers", it could DevOps, site reliability and all the bits and pieces that make up a large service provider, but over a 1000?

Can someone please enlighten me?

[intelVISA]

It's a fair question, I think you need ~10 or so to do the work and 990 to bikeshed the horrors that come about when you have what should be a few 3mb HTTPS APIs at $50-100pcm split between 1000 resume-hungry engineers and a taste for cloud complexity.

[fragmede]

probably has something to do with the products that go beyond accepting credit cards listed on https://docs.stripe.com/products, though I suspect operating just the credit card accepting part is harder than you imagine.

[itsjustjordan]

Surely in 2024 we can't be classifying Stripe as just "a payment service"

[bartonfink]

What else have they done that's worth giving a shit about?