Backend API Engineer - Scale Global Money Movement

Monograph; Greater London; On-site; GBP 81,600 - 157,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Wellness stipend

Health benefits

Job summary

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to build and scale money-management APIs and services for a global audience. You will extend foundational APIs powering Treasury products and collaborate with cross-functional teams across Infrastructure and Product Management.

The role emphasizes practical coding across languages, mentorship of peers, and strong collaboration in a distributed, hybrid environment. London office presence is expected, with flexible arrangements where possible.

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Language-agnostic interview process; strong coding skills in any language.
• Strong collaboration skills across workstreams.
• Ability to work with high autonomy and entrepreneurial mindset.
• Interest in being a generalist across varying technologies and stacks.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems for money movement.
• Debug production issues across services and stack levels.
• Mentor engineers to grow.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to build features at scale and improve standards.
• Work in a distributed hybrid team with open communication.

Skills

APIs design

Large-scale systems

Cloud services

Docker/Kubernetes

gRPC/GraphQL

Autonomy

Entrepreneurial mindset

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to build and scale money-management APIs and services for a global audience. You will extend foundational APIs powering Treasury products and collaborate with cross-functional teams across Infrastructure and Product Management.

The role emphasizes practical coding across languages, mentorship of peers, and strong collaboration in a distributed, hybrid environment. London office presence is expected, with flexible arrangements where possible.