Global-Scale Backend/API Engineer for Money Movement

Stripe; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to extend our balance management platform and build a new funds accessibility platform used by enterprises and SMBs. You will design and maintain APIs and services at a global scale, collaborating with Infrastructure and Product teams to deliver innovative solutions that meet evolving user needs.

You will join a distributed, hybrid team and mentor peers while thriving with autonomy and ownership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops).
• Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job, so our interview process is language-agnostic).
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success.
• Ability to thrive with an autonomous and responsible mindset, with an entrepreneurial approach.
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users.

Responsibilities

• Scope, 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, tooling, and processes.
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues.

Skills

Backend development

APIs design

Cross-functional collaboration

Autonomy

Entrepreneurial mindset

Generalist across stacks

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GraphQL

gRPC

Job description

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers to extend our balance management platform and build a new funds accessibility platform used by enterprises and SMBs. You will design and maintain APIs and services at a global scale, collaborating with Infrastructure and Product teams to deliver innovative solutions that meet evolving user needs.

You will join a distributed, hybrid team and mentor peers while thriving with autonomy and ownership in a fast-paced environment.