5 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and operate low-latency, fault-tolerant backend microservices integrating with Indian payment methods.
- Map India-specific payment flows into Stripe’s global API platforms and build reliable adapter layers for banking partners and payment networks.
- Own end-to-end service health through shadow rollouts, distributed tracing, automated failovers, proactive alerting, and reliability improvements targeting 99.99% uptime.
- Build scalable APIs and infrastructure that simplify complex payment rails and meet strict service-level agreements.
- Scope, build, ship, debug, and improve medium-to-large production systems from ambiguous requirements.
- Collaborate with Product, Regulatory/Legal, Risk, Partner Integration, and global engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers and improve engineering standards, tooling, code reviews, and architectural practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, high-performance APIs and services.
- Experience implementing server-side APIs using Ruby, Java, or Go.
- Experience working with document and relational datastores, especially Mongo and MySQL.
- Strong communication, collaboration, user focus, and ability to balance speed, complexity, and scope.
- Preferred: experience with financial systems, payments infrastructure, fintech, distributed systems, complex microservices architectures, and cross-functional technical alignment.
Benefits
- Office-assigned employees are generally expected to spend at least 50% of each month in their local office or with users, with requirements varying by role, team, and location.
- Some Stripe Delivery Center roles, including Bengaluru, India, work 100% from the office.
- Stripe supports flexibility where possible while emphasizing in-person collaboration and learning.
About Stripe
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.