Full-Stack Payments Engineer – Global API Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Bridge is building a new payments platform powered by stablecoins to enable global money movement. The team ships end-to-end product experiences across frontend apps, backend services, and data systems, with APIs powering global payments, virtual accounts, and payouts.

You will own projects from design through launch with autonomy, focusing on reliability, performance, and customer impact in a fast-paced environment. Strong collaboration and clear technical communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software-engineering experience.
• Experience building and shipping production software across frontend and backend.
• Strong experience with backend services, SQL databases, and API design.
• Experience building polished, maintainable web applications and collaborating closely on product and user-experience decisions.
• A strong sense of ownership, with the ability to lead technical projects and influence product direction.
• Ability to write modular, well-tested, maintainable code while remaining pragmatic and moving quickly.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and diving into unfamiliar problem spaces.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear technical documentation.
• Curiosity, sound judgment, and a commitment to continuously improving the product for partners and end users.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship end-to-end product experiences across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and data systems.
• Design reliable, performant, and intuitive interfaces for developers, operations teams, and end users interacting with Bridge products.
• Develop and maintain the APIs and backend systems that power global payments, virtual accounts, and payouts.
• Own projects from technical design through launch and iteration, often operating with substantial autonomy and without dedicated product management support.
• Debug and resolve production issues across the stack, with a focus on reliability, performance, and customer impact.
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs among business priorities, user experience, speed of execution, and long-term technical quality.

Skills

Software engineering

Frontend & Backend

SQL databases

API design

Ownership & leadership

Maintainable code

Communication

Job description

Bridge is building a new payments platform powered by stablecoins to enable global money movement. The team ships end-to-end product experiences across frontend apps, backend services, and data systems, with APIs powering global payments, virtual accounts, and payouts.

You will own projects from design through launch with autonomy, focusing on reliability, performance, and customer impact in a fast-paced environment. Strong collaboration and clear technical communication are essential.