Backend Engineer, Intelligent Commerce

Stripe; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is hiring for its LPM Partner Success team in Seattle. You will design systems to enable 26+ payment methods, building a single abstraction to improve integration quality for partners and internal teams.

You’ll work with OCS, Billing, and Risk to ensure smooth launches, while mentoring fellow engineers and delivering self-serve tools for debugging and monitoring. This role emphasizes autonomy and a broad technical palette.

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills across languages and platforms.
• Excellent collaboration across workstreams and teams.
• Ability to work autonomously with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Comfort acting as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks.
• Experience building, maintaining, and running production services and backend APIs.
• Strong focus on delivering great user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Build platforms that improve the integration quality for multiple payment methods.
• Ship features on the LPM Partner Dashboard to give partners visibility and control.
• Design self-serve workflows for partners to debug, monitor, and operate independently.
• Streamline onboarding of new payment methods for global teams.
• Collaborate with OCS, Billing, Risk and other teams to support Stripe products.
• Debug and resolve production issues across the stack.
• Mentor engineers on the team.

Skills

Coding skills

Collaboration

Autonomy

Generalist

Backend APIs

User experience

Job description

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies — from theworld'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 theGDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have anunprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing themost important work of your career.

About the team

The LPM Partner Success team is on a mission to capture a massive opportunity for Stripe:Aligning Stripe’s PIV with global payment method trends. We do this by arming integrationteams with the tools they need to ship full-featured LPMs faster, and we give LPM partners theability to independently grow and maintain their businesses on Stripe.We own the 3P Platform, Turnkey, and the LPM Partner Dashboard, powering 26+ paymentmethods. Our vision: building an LPM on Stripe should be as simple as deploying an app to anapp store. We provide the tooling so every integration ships full-featured out of the box, and webuild self-serve tools that let partners debug, monitor, and grow without Stripe in the criticalpath. Global teams focus on strategy and differentiation, not implementation.

What you’ll do

While most Stripe platform teams focus on internal users or merchants, this team supports LPMpartners. You'll design systems where a single abstraction can improve the integration quality for26+ payment methods. You’ll deeply understand the needs of our LPM partners and developtools that will make Stripe the best in class partner for LPMs. To ensure every LPM launcheswith Stripe's core ecosystem from day one, you will work closely with teams like OCS, Billing,and Risk.

Responsibilities

• Build platforms that improve the feature completeness of 10+ local payment methods at once (recurring, cross-border, adaptive pricing)
• Ship features on the LPM Partner Dashboard, a greenfield product that gives partners visibility and control over their integration with Stripe
• Design self-serve workflows that let partners debug, monitor, and operate independently without pulling in Stripe engineers
• Streamline the LPM integration process so global teams can onboard new payment methods faster
• Work with OCS, Billing, Risk, and other teams to ensure LPM integrations support critical Stripe products
• Debug and resolve production issues across the stack
• Mentor engineers on the team

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• Strong coding skills in any programming language
• 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
• Experience building, maintaining, and running production services and backend APIs
• Deep care for users' needs and a track record of building great user experiences

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing multi-tenant platforms or systems that need to generalize across many similar-but-different use cases
• Familiarity with payments infrastructure or payment method integrations
• Experience building for external partner ecosystems where you don't control the other side of the integration