Golang Backend Engineer for SDKs & API Design

Stripe; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 135,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Retirement plans

Health benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe in Canada is seeking a Golang-focused engineer to shape the experience of developers using our SDKs that power a large portion of Stripe’s payments. You will influence how APIs are authored and surfaced through SDKs while collaborating with teams across the company.

You’ll mentor peers, contribute to language bindings in Golang and other languages, and help ensure our SDKs remain idiomatic and developer‑friendly.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in engineering across a wide range of products.
• 3+ years of experience as a Golang software engineer.
• An interest in working with multiple programming languages.
• A passion for API design and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Be the Golang expert on the team, representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic.
• Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work toward a future where we open source it to make it easier for third‑party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries.
• Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process.
• Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe.
• Support our users reaching out to us on the open‑source GitHub repositories for our SDKs.
• Add support for new language features in SDKs.
• Help lead the API design process at Stripe, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that surface through our SDKs.
• Collaborate, mentor, and provide support to other team members.]
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• COMPANY NAME: StripeKEY POINTS: Golang expert, multi-language API design, SDK development
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• <p>Stripe in Canada is seeking a Golang-focused engineer to shape the experience of developers using our SDKs that power a large portion of Stripe’s payments. You will influence how APIs are authored and surfaced through SDKs while collaborating with teams across the company.</p><p>You’ll mentor peers, contribute to language bindings in Golang and other languages, and help ensure our SDKs remain idiomatic and developer‑friendly. The role is based in Canada with hybrid options and a competitive compensation package including equity and health benefits.</p>

Skills

Golang

Node.js

API design

OpenAPI

Job description

Stripe in Canada is seeking a Golang-focused engineer to shape the experience of developers using our SDKs that power a large portion of Stripe’s payments. You will influence how APIs are authored and surfaced through SDKs while collaborating with teams across the company.

You’ll mentor peers, contribute to language bindings in Golang and other languages, and help ensure our SDKs remain idiomatic and developer‑friendly.