Backend Engineer, Global Payments Platform

EngineersOfAI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking backend engineers to impact payments at a global scale. You will help expand our product suite and the supporting infrastructure, working with cross-functional teams and Stripe partners to deliver scalable solutions.

You should have 2–10+ years of software engineering experience, strong coding skills, and a collaborative, autonomous mindset. The role supports a distributed, hybrid team with opportunities to mentor and grow.

Qualifications

• 2–10+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to peers' success.
• Autonomy and an entrepreneurial mindset for owning end-to-end work.

Responsibilities

• Build and design the next generation of Stripe products to meet growth and customer needs.
• Debug and resolve critical production issues across services and stack levels.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow and improve technical capabilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build scalable features and improve standards.
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team with open communication.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Cloud services

AI integrations

Job description

Stripe is seeking backend engineers to impact payments at a global scale. You will help expand our product suite and the supporting infrastructure, working with cross-functional teams and Stripe partners to deliver scalable solutions.

You should have 2–10+ years of software engineering experience, strong coding skills, and a collaborative, autonomous mindset. The role supports a distributed, hybrid team with opportunities to mentor and grow.