Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

Sanics Edu; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking engineers to scope, design, build, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems that handle billions of money movement requests. You will debug production issues, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to deploy new features at scale.

A strong generalist with autonomy and collaboration is valued in a distributed, hybrid team. We welcome engineers with 2–12+ years of experience in software development, language-agnostic coding skills, and a proactive, entrepreneurial

Qualifications

• 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language; interview process is language agnostic.
• Strong collaboration skills across workstreams and peers’ success.
• Autonomy, responsibility, and 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 that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
• Debug and solve production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow.
• 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 with colleagues.

Job description

Who we are

About Stripe 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

Money as a Service (MaaS) Sub-orgs within MaaS: Accounts and Connect, Money Movement and Storage (MMS), Stripe’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS), Crypto Money as a Service (MaaS) oversees a diverse portfolio of Stripe's core products and platforms. These offerings facilitate the global movement and management of funds for users.

Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages.

Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.

What you’ll do

• 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
• 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.

The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

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