Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes 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, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success

We’re looking for Backend engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You’ll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams – from Infrastructure to Product –  at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.

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

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. 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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.