Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Backend/API Engineer will build and maintain ergonomic APIs, services, and large-scale systems for managing money and handling global money movement, while debugging production issues, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams.

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

Requirements:

• 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 a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
• Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)