Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Mentor engineers to help them grow
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

Requirements

• 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
• Strong coding skills in any programming language
• Strong collaboration skills; can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
• Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS)

Benefits

• Equity
• Company Bonus or Sales Commissions/Bonuses
• Retirement Plans
• Health Benefits
• Wellness Stipends

About the Company

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, offering an unprecedented opportunity to develop solutions that impact the global economy.