Stripe

Backend Engineer, Privy

Stripe • $130K — $180K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in building and maintaining large-scale production systems
  • Strong understanding of modern API development best practices
  • Experience in data modeling, managing database migrations, and infrastructure configuration
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Growth mindset with curiosity and willingness to explore new challenges
  • Capability to write maintainable, well-tested modular code while balancing speed
  • Excellent communication skills with a focus on clear technical documentation

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop developer-centric tools that prioritize user privacy
  • Create intuitive APIs and beautiful interfaces that simplify complex systems
  • Collaborate with teammates to foster transparency and open-source contributions
  • Conduct experiments and explore innovative solutions to improve tooling
  • Ensure high code quality through testing and maintainability

Benefits

  • Flexible working environment
  • Encouragement of open-source contributions
  • Opportunities for experimentation and innovation
  • Focus on personal and professional growth
  • Collaborative team culture promoting transparency
Full Job Description
What you'll do
  • Design and build the backend systems that power wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure at scale
  • Create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to build faster
  • Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems
  • Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform
  • Help shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work
Who you are
Minimum requirements
  • 8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
  • An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
  • Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
  • An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • A growth mindset, a constant curiosity, and fearlessness to dive into the unknown
  • An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation
Preferred qualifications
  • Experience in an API-driven business within payments, fintech, or crypto
  • Built or contributed to open-source developer tooling
  • Published work (open source code, talks, blog posts, etc.)
  • Experience working with blockchain protocols and designing or interacting with smart contracts
  • Experience in authentication, identity, or security

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
Finance & Insurance
Founded
2010
* Ladders Estimates

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