Backend/API Engineer — Build Global Money APIs

Stripe; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to scale Money Movement APIs for Treasury products worldwide. You will design, build, and maintain APIs and large‑scale systems that move billions of dollars, collaborating with infrastructure, product, and other teams in a hybrid environment.

We value autonomy, entrepreneurial thinking, and a generalist approach across technologies. Strong coding skills and experience with cloud services are a plus. Equity-friendly and fast-paced culture with global impact.

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language; interview language-agnostic.

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.

Skills

Backend development

APIs design

Collaboration

Autonomy

Generalist across stacks

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

gRPC

AWS

Job description

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to scale Money Movement APIs for Treasury products worldwide. You will design, build, and maintain APIs and large‑scale systems that move billions of dollars, collaborating with infrastructure, product, and other teams in a hybrid environment.

We value autonomy, entrepreneurial thinking, and a generalist approach across technologies. Strong coding skills and experience with cloud services are a plus. Equity-friendly and fast-paced culture with global impact.