Stripe

Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk

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16 days ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems handling billions of money movement requests.
  • Debug and resolve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
  • Mentor engineers and support their professional growth.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to build large-scale features and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
  • Work effectively in a distributed and hybrid team.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of industry software engineering experience, excluding internships and co-ops.
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language; the interview process is language agnostic.
  • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to contribute to peers’ success.
  • Ability to work with significant autonomy and ownership in an entrepreneurial environment.
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks.
  • Preferred: experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
  • Preferred: practical knowledge of cloud-based services such as gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS.

Benefits

  • Distributed and hybrid team work arrangement.
  • Potential team matching across Payments and Risk sub-teams or other organizations based on experience and location.

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About Stripe

5,001-10,000 employees

Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.

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