Stripe

Backend Engineer, Payments

Stripe$130K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Toronto, ON
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (excludes internships and co-ops)
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language
  • Excellent collaboration skills to work across teams
  • Self-starter with high autonomy and responsibility
  • Willingness to engage as a generalist across different technologies

Responsibilities

  • Scope, design, and build APIs and systems for handling billions of money movement requests
  • Debug and resolve critical production issues
  • Mentor junior engineers to foster their growth
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to develop large-scale features and enhance engineering practices
  • Communicate openly and effectively within a distributed team

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on financial infrastructure that influences the global economy
  • Engagement with innovative technologies in payments and risk management
  • Work within a collaborative and diverse team environment
  • Access to career growth and mentorship opportunities
  • Focus on building user-friendly and innovative digital payment solutions
Full Job Description
Note: if you are an intern, new grad, staff, frontend or fullstack applicant, please do not apply using this link and visit our jobs page for those specific postings.
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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