Backend Engineer, Product

Stripe; London; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial infrastructure platform is seeking Software Engineers to enhance their money management platform. You will design and maintain APIs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and solve critical production issues while mentoring others. This role offers a competitive salary and opportunities for growth in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Equity

Company bonus

Health benefits

Wellness stipends

Qualifications

• 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Ability to thrive on autonomy and responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs and services.
• Debug and solve critical production issues.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow.

Skills

Collaboration

Coding

Problem Solving

Tools

gRPC

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

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

Exact team matching for one of the subteams within the following orgs will begin during final stages. If you have a strong preference for a specific org, please flag this to your recruiter during your recruiter screen.

Money as a Service (MaaS)

Money as a Service is a new org within Stripe which is all about making money programmable: funding, FX’ing, sending, spending … The Money as a Service (MaaS) teams build the APIs and product experience which allow Stripe users to perform these money management capabilities on Stripe globally.

You can see some of the recent products we’ve launched:

The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. Optimized Checkout and Link teams work to create best-in-class checkout experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and drive merchant conversion rates. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding Stripe’s brand and financial stability.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for Software 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 money management platform and in building out new funds flows on top of this platform. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams – from Infrastructure to Product – 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
  
• Meet directly with our users to help shape product changes
  
• 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. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

• 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
  
• Experience designing and building HTTP APIs
  
• Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)
  

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is £81,200 - £156,000. 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.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.