Backend/API Engineer for Global Money Movement

Stripe; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Company bonus

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Job summary

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to scale a global balance management and funds accessibility platform. You will design and maintain APIs and services handling billions of money movement requests, collaborating with Infrastructure, Product, and other teams.

The role emphasizes cross-functional impact, mentoring teammates, and delivering features at scale in a hybrid environment. Prior experience with large-scale financial systems and cloud services is preferred.

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of software engineering experience (excludes internships/co-ops).
• Strong coding skills in any programming language; interview process is language-agnostic.
• Strong collaboration skills across workstreams and peers' success.
• Autonomy with responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems handling 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 new features at scale and improve internal standards, tooling, and processes.
• Collaborate in a distributed and hybrid team with open communication.

Skills

Software engineering

Collaboration

Autonomy

Generalist across stacks

Tools

gRPC

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to scale a global balance management and funds accessibility platform. You will design and maintain APIs and services handling billions of money movement requests, collaborating with Infrastructure, Product, and other teams.

The role emphasizes cross-functional impact, mentoring teammates, and delivering features at scale in a hybrid environment. Prior experience with large-scale financial systems and cloud services is preferred.