Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

Stripe; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to build and maintain Money Management APIs for Treasury products at a global scale. You will design scalable services, debug complex production issues, mentor teammates, and partner with Infrastructure and Product teams to deliver ergonomic APIs that power billions of money movement requests worldwide.

This role supports a hybrid team in the London area and offers rich challenges across modern cloud services.

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Languages agnostic interview process.
• Strong collaboration across workstreams and teams.
• High level of autonomy and entrepreneurial mindset.
• Interest in solving problems across varying technologies and stacks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs and services powering money movement at scale.
• Debug production issues across services and stack levels.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver features at scale and improve standards.

Skills

Languages agnostic

Collaboration

Autonomy

Generalist across stacks

Tools

Docker/Kubernetes

GraphQL

gRPC

AWS

Job description

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the Organization

Money as a Service (MaaS) oversees a diverse portfolio of Stripe's core platforms and services. Our Stripe Treasury suite helps users manage and move their funds with ease, providing the robust financial infrastructure and tools they need to power their businesses on a global scale.

Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams within this org will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.

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 foundational Money Management APIs and services powering our Treasury products globally. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams – from Infrastructure to Product Manager – 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. 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.)