Senior Backend Engineer, CI/CD & Developer Tools

Stripe; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe Ireland is seeking an accomplished software professional to join the Developer Productivity group. You will help design and evolve the core CI systems, tooling, and processes used by Stripe’s engineers at scale.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, architectural judgment, and mentoring junior and senior engineers. You’ll collaborate across teams to accelerate shipping while maintaining high standards for reliability, observability, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional hands‑on software development experience.
• Hands‑on experience designing and building large scale distributed systems.
• A track record of technically mentoring junior and senior engineers.
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome.
• Demonstrated ability of defining & driving complex initiatives/projects across multiple teams.
• Proven success with cross‑discipline and cross‑team collaborations, possess strong conviction and courage skills.
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial.
• Related experience in the area of Developer Tooling, CI/CD or DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact for engineers within Stripe.
• Design, build, and maintain the core CI systems used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams.
• Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices we make in building these products. In many cases, you will be the owner of these decisions.
• Directly contribute to core interface design and write code. Serve as a role model for how great software should be written for Stripe as a whole.
• Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Stripe system realities, and numerous stakeholders’ preferences and concerns.
• Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe.
• Drive the effective and highly-leveraged use of AI-assisted implementation, ops, and delivery within the team.

Job description

Stripe Ireland is seeking an accomplished software professional to join the Developer Productivity group. You will help design and evolve the core CI systems, tooling, and processes used by Stripe’s engineers at scale.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, architectural judgment, and mentoring junior and senior engineers. You’ll collaborate across teams to accelerate shipping while maintaining high standards for reliability, observability, and developer experience.