Backend / API Engineer, Payouts

Stripe; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial infrastructure platform is seeking a Backend Engineer to focus on building ergonomic APIs and managing money on a global scale. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, debugging critical production issues, and mentoring other engineers. The ideal candidate has strong coding skills, industry experience, and an interest in working across various technologies. The annual salary ranges from £81,200 to £121,800, reflecting the candidate's experience and location.

Qualifications

• 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs and services.
• Debug and solve critical production issues.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Build new features and improve engineering standards.

Skills

Strong coding skills in any programming language

Strong collaboration skills

Ability to work autonomously and responsibly

Interest in working as a generalist

Tools

Cloud services (e.g., AWS)

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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. Office‑assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in‑office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in‑office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in‑person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Requirements

• 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor include 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 the Organization

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.

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.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is £81,200 - £121,800. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.