Global-Scale Backend Engineer — Payments APIs

Stripe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers who want to impact how money moves at a global scale. You will help design, build, and maintain APIs and services that power large-scale financial workflows for enterprises and SMBs.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will extend the balance management platform and contribute to new funds accessibility features. Strong coding skills, autonomy, and a collaborative mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across workstreams.
• Ability to thrive with autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks.

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

Coding skills

Collaboration

Autonomy

Entrepreneurial mindset

Generalist mindset

Tools

gRPC

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Stripe is seeking Backend Engineers who want to impact how money moves at a global scale. You will help design, build, and maintain APIs and services that power large-scale financial workflows for enterprises and SMBs.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will extend the balance management platform and contribute to new funds accessibility features. Strong coding skills, autonomy, and a collaborative mindset are essential.