Backend Platform Engineer for UI Dashboards

Stripe, Inc.; Barcelona (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. seeks a Backend Engineer for the Sail Services team. You will build and evolve systems powering Stripe’s dashboards and user interfaces, from APIs and GraphQL integrations to edge services and migrations.

You will drive end-to-end projects with cross-functional teams, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance in a fast-paced environment. This role emphasizes collaboration and responsible, reusable platform solutions.

Qualifications

• Fluency with AI-assisted tools and evaluating generated code.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, data storage, distributed systems, and production operations.
• Ability to independently scope and deliver open-ended software projects with limited oversight.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging with emphasis on testing and reliability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for collaboration with frontend, product, and infra teams.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of software projects, aligning on priorities and delivering solutions through design, implementation, testing, rollout, and operation.
• Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable APIs and backend systems that support Stripe’s UI and interfaces.
• Help modernize Stripe’s UI architecture through migrations, automated validation, and controlled rollouts.
• Improve reliability, observability, performance, and operability of services on critical user paths.
• Collaborate with frontend, backend, and infrastructure engineers to turn recurring problems into reusable platform capabilities.
• Utilize AI-assisted workflows to improve implementation, testing, validation, and delivery.
• Contribute code reviews, technical discussions, documentation, and runbooks to raise team quality.

Skills

AI-assisted tools

Software engineering

Backend technologies

Scope and deliver projects

Problem solving & debugging

Communication

Job description

Stripe, Inc. seeks a Backend Engineer for the Sail Services team. You will build and evolve systems powering Stripe’s dashboards and user interfaces, from APIs and GraphQL integrations to edge services and migrations.

You will drive end-to-end projects with cross-functional teams, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance in a fast-paced environment. This role emphasizes collaboration and responsible, reusable platform solutions.