Global Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

Stripe; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to extend foundational Money Management APIs and services powering Treasury products globally. You will design and scale APIs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor others to build robust systems that handle billions of transactions.

The role emphasizes autonomy, ownership, and a bias for thoughtful, high-quality engineering across a distributed, hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience (not including internships or co-ops).
• Language-agnostic interview process; strong coding skills in any language.
• Strong collaboration and cross-workstream teamwork; autonomous and entrepreneurial mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems handling billions of money-movement requests.
• Debug production issues across services and stack levels.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices across teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver features at scale and improve tooling and processes.
• Work effectively in distributed, hybrid teams with clear communication.

Skills

APIs

Distributed systems

Collaboration

Tools

Docker/Kubernetes

AWS

GraphQL

Job description

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to extend foundational Money Management APIs and services powering Treasury products globally. You will design and scale APIs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor others to build robust systems that handle billions of transactions.

The role emphasizes autonomy, ownership, and a bias for thoughtful, high-quality engineering across a distributed, hybrid work environment.