Backend Engineer, Privy

Stripe; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k)

Medical/Dental/Vision

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Privy is seeking an experienced engineer to design and build backend systems powering wallets, identity, and on-chain infrastructure at scale, while collaborating with Stripe to create platform primitives and APIs that accelerate product development.

Your work will include leading complex initiatives, improving scalability and reliability, and steering technical direction through high-impact engineering in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building production systems at scale.
• Strong API development practices and design.
• Experience in data modeling, migrations, and infrastructure configuration.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Growth mindset and curiosity; fearless to explore the unknown.
• Ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code and move fast.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to write technical docs.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems that power wallets, identity, and on-chain infrastructure at scale.
• Create platform primitives and APIs enabling Privy and Stripe teams to move faster.
• Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems.
• Improve scalability, reliability, and performance of the core platform.
• Shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work.

Skills

API design

Backend development

Data modeling

Security mindset

Documentation

Tools

Node

React

AWS

Job description

About Privy

Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails.

Who we are

About Privy

Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails.

Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link. We get to solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers like Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo — powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives.

Learn more about Privy: Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone

About The Team

Engineering at Privy is distinguished by:

• High urgency: Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly.
• Product taste: Our customers are developers, and to build effective products for them requires technical knowledge - you will often be "the PM".
• Security mindset: A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start.

In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers.

What you'll do

• Design and build the backend systems that power wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure at scale
• Create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to build faster
• Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems
• Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform
• Help shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work

Who you are

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
• An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
• Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• A growth mindset, a constant curiosity, and fearlessness to dive into the unknown
• An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an API-driven business within payments, fintech, or crypto
• Built or contributed to open-source developer tooling
• Published work (open source code, talks, blog posts, etc.)
• Experience working with blockchain protocols and designing or interacting with smart contracts
• Experience in authentication, identity, or security

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $190,400 - $285,600. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions.