Stripe

Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform

Stripe$145K — $175K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-12+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Proficient in any programming language, adaptable to new languages
  • Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work autonomously with an entrepreneurial mindset
  • Interest in versatile technologies to solve diverse challenges

Responsibilities

  • Scope, design, and build APIs and systems for large-scale money movement
  • Debug and resolve critical production issues across services
  • Mentor and grow less experienced engineers
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and enhance features
  • Engage effectively in a hybrid team environment

Benefits

  • Team matching based on experience and location
  • Opportunity to work on a global scale with financial impact
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Focus on continuous improvement of internal engineering standards
  • Emphasis on mentorship and professional growth opportunities
Full Job Description
About the team

Stripe's Developer & End-user Experience Platform (DEEP) organization empowers all of Stripe's products with a shared product platform that helps with rapidly delivering high-quality, cross-product experiences across our UI and API surfaces. It focuses on providing a consistent and scalable developer experience that any developer (both internal and external) can leverage to accelerate a merchant's ability to create value using Stripe.

Team matching - exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.
What you'll do

We're looking for Backend Engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform that enterprises and SMBs use. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams-from Infrastructure to Product-at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.
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
Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
  • 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job, so our interview process is language-agnostic)
  • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
  • Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Preferred qualifications
  • Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
  • Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)

About Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Stripe powers businesses all over the world, from the new startup that just launched yesterday to the Fortune 500 companies that we all know and love. Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and more.
Learn more about Stripe
Size
4,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2010

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