Backend Engineer: Global Payments & Risk APIs

Stripe; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe Dublin is seeking backend engineers to scale our balance management platform and build a new funds accessibility platform used by enterprises and SMBs globally. You’ll design, deploy, and improve ergonomic APIs that handle billions of money-movement requests, collaborating across cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes autonomy, a generalist mindset across technologies, and strong coding skills. We offer a hybrid working model with competitive compensation and benefits in Ireland.

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Ability to collaborate across workstreams and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that handle billions of money movement requests.
• Debug and solve production issues across services and stack levels.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to build features at scale and improve internal standards.
• Work effectively in a distributed and hybrid team with open communication.

Skills

API development

Distributed systems

Collaborative skills

Autonomy

Generalist across stacks

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

gRPC

GraphQL

Job description

Stripe Dublin is seeking backend engineers to scale our balance management platform and build a new funds accessibility platform used by enterprises and SMBs globally. You’ll design, deploy, and improve ergonomic APIs that handle billions of money-movement requests, collaborating across cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes autonomy, a generalist mindset across technologies, and strong coding skills. We offer a hybrid working model with competitive compensation and benefits in Ireland.