Backend Engineer, Global Payments Platform

Stripe; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to scale money movement APIs and build a new funds accessibility platform for global enterprises and SMBs. You will extend the balance management system and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality APIs and services at scale.

The role emphasizes mentorship, autonomy, and a distributed/hybrid team environment, with opportunities to influence product and platform direction.

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Strong collaboration across workstreams within the team.
• Autonomy with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs and services for billions of money movement requests.
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and stack levels.
• Mentor engineers to grow their skills and impact.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ship large-scale features and improve engineering standards.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Autonomy

Entrepreneurial mindset

Job description

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to scale money movement APIs and build a new funds accessibility platform for global enterprises and SMBs. You will extend the balance management system and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality APIs and services at scale.

The role emphasizes mentorship, autonomy, and a distributed/hybrid team environment, with opportunities to influence product and platform direction.