Backend Engineer, Global Money-Movement APIs

Stripe

Seattle (WA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Stripe in Seattle is seeking Backend Engineers to design, build, and scale APIs and services that process billions of money movements. You will contribute to the balance management platform and collaborate with cross-functional teams across infrastructure, product, and security.

We value generalist engineers who thrive autonomously, mentor peers, and own features from design to production. Experience with cloud services like AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is a plus, and strong coding skills are

Qualifications

2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience.
Strong coding skills in any programming language; language-agnostic interview process.
Strong collaboration skills across workstreams within your team.
Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with 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 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.