Stripe

Backend Engineer, Payments

Stripe$110K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-12+ years of software engineering experience (excluding internships and co-ops)
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language
  • Excellent collaboration abilities across teams
  • Self-driven with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
  • Interest in versatile technologies and solving diverse problems

Responsibilities

  • Scope, design, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems for money movement
  • Debug and resolve critical issues across services and stack levels
  • Mentor less experienced engineers
  • Work with stakeholders to develop large-scale features
  • Foster effective communication in a distributed team environment

Benefits

  • Collaborative work culture
  • Opportunities to mentor and grow professionally
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams
  • Focus on impactful work in financial infrastructure
  • Access to innovative technologies and problem-solving opportunities
Full Job Description
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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 leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike. 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 nor includes 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, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
  • 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/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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