Backend Engineer, Payments & Risk at Scale

Stripe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 157,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking backend engineers to design, build, and scale money-movement APIs for a global audience. You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable services and improve developer experiences across stacks.

The role emphasizes autonomy, mentorship, and ownership, with opportunities to impact payments infrastructure at a large scale. In-office expectations vary by location, with a competitive base salary and solid benefits.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops).
• Strong coding skills in any programming language (interview process is language-agnostic).
• Strong collaboration skills; can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to peers' success.
• Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Interested in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight users.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Mentor engineers to help them grow
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large scale, while improving internal engineering standards and tooling
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

Skills

API design

Programming languages

Cloud services

Collaboration

Autonomy

Tools

gRPC

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Stripe is seeking backend engineers to design, build, and scale money-movement APIs for a global audience. You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable services and improve developer experiences across stacks.

The role emphasizes autonomy, mentorship, and ownership, with opportunities to impact payments infrastructure at a large scale. In-office expectations vary by location, with a competitive base salary and solid benefits.