Stripe

Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

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2 months ago
London, United KingdomMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems handling billions of money movement requests.
  • Debug and solve 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 across team workstreams.
  • Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility 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, including gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS.

Benefits

  • Distributed and hybrid work environment.
  • Team matching with Money as a Service subteams during the final hiring stages, with consideration for other organizations based on experience and location.

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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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