Stripe

Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

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1 month ago
USA (city not specified)Mid Level / Senior
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Responsibilities

  • Scope, 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 contribute to 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

  • 2–12+ 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 autonomously with significant responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset.
  • Interest in generalist backend engineering across varied technologies and stacks.
  • Preferred: experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
  • Preferred: practical knowledge of cloud-based services, including gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

Benefits

  • The role is part of a distributed and hybrid team.

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About Stripe

10,000+ employees

Stripe builds financial infrastructure for internet businesses, offering APIs and tools for online and in‑person payments, subscriptions, marketplaces/payouts, fraud prevention, identity, tax, issuing, and treasury. It monetizes through per‑transaction fees and SaaS pricing for advanced products. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Stripe is privately held and serves companies from startups to large enterprises worldwide.

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