Backend Engineer, Payments

Stripe; United States; Remote; USD 79,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and operate payments services that move money for customers. The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and correctness of payment processing systems serving global users. This position is remote, based in Canada with a Toronto hub.

You'll design APIs, collaborate across teams, and contribute to on-call rotations for payment-critical systems while advancing best practices and robust infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience building production backend systems in at least one listed language.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data modeling and transactional consistency.
• Familiarity with payments concepts like PCI compliance, fraud, or financial integrations is a plus.
• Comfort working remotely and coordinating across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs powering payment flows such as authorization, capture, refunds, and payouts.
• Improve reliability, latency, and correctness of money-movement pipelines handling large transaction volumes.
• Collaborate with infra, security, and product teams to launch new payment methods and markets.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, including on-call rotations for payment-critical systems.
• Write well-tested code and contribute to engineering best practices.

Skills

Go

Java

Ruby

Distributed systems

PCI awareness

Job description

Role overview

A backend engineer joins the payments organization to design, build, and operate the services that move money for customers. The role focuses on the reliability, correctness, and scalability of payment processing systems serving global users. The position is remote, based out of Canada with a Toronto hub.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs that power payment flows such as authorization, capture, refunds, and payouts.
• Improve the reliability, latency, and correctness of money-movement pipelines handling large transaction volumes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and product teams to launch new payment methods and markets.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, including on-call rotations for payment-critical systems.
• Write well-tested, maintainable code and contribute to engineering best practices across the team.

Requirements

• Professional experience building production backend systems, ideally in Go, Java, Ruby, or a comparable language.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and transactional consistency.
• Familiarity with payments concepts such as PCI compliance, fraud, or financial integrations is welcome.
• Comfort working remotely and partnering across time zones.

Nice to have

• Prior experience at a payments processor, fintech, or another high-availability financial platform.