Backend Engineer, Global Payments & Risk APIs

Stripe; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Company bonus / commissions

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking backend engineers to design, build, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems for billions of money movement requests. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while driving reliable, secure, and scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes autonomy, ownership, and the ability to work across varying technologies in a hybrid or in-office environment. Prior experience with financial platforms and cloud services is valued.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language; language agnostic interview process.
• Strong collaboration skills and autonomy to own work.
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems handling billions of money movement requests.
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and stack levels.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to build features at scale and improve internal standards.
• Work effectively in a distributed, hybrid team with strong communication.

Job description

Stripe is seeking backend engineers to design, build, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems for billions of money movement requests. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while driving reliable, secure, and scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes autonomy, ownership, and the ability to work across varying technologies in a hybrid or in-office environment. Prior experience with financial platforms and cloud services is valued.