Senior Backend Engineer, Global Payments

Stripe, Inc.; New York, Seattle, San Francisco (NY, WA, CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. in New York seeks a backend engineer to help build the next generation of payment products at global scale. You will work across services and stacks, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure digital payments.

With 2–10+ years of software engineering experience, you will mentor peers, tackle production issues, and contribute to scalable infrastructure. This role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and delivering high-impact features in a hybrid,

Qualifications

• 2–10+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to peers' success.
• Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Interest in working as a backend specialist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users.

Responsibilities

• Build and design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high-growth needs of our company and customers for years to come.
• 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

Strong coding skills

Strong collaboration skills

Autonomy

Entrepreneurial mindset

Backend development

Tools

Cloud services

Job description

Stripe, Inc. in New York seeks a backend engineer to help build the next generation of payment products at global scale. You will work across services and stacks, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure digital payments.

With 2–10+ years of software engineering experience, you will mentor peers, tackle production issues, and contribute to scalable infrastructure. This role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and delivering high-impact features in a hybrid,