Backend/API Engineer

Join Stripe as a Backend/API Engineer

Stripe is seeking a talented Backend/API Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a key member of our engineering department, you will have the opportunity to work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes, designing, building, testing, and shipping great code every day.

About Stripe

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.

Responsibilities

• Build a great customer experience for internal teams and Stripe users using our infrastructure.
• Scope and lead medium to large technical projects that align with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives.
• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps, making effective technical trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with customers and cross-functional stakeholders across Stripe.
• Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack.

Who You Are

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.

Minimum Requirements

• Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above.
• 2+ years of professional hands-on experience in designing and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success.
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome.
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc).
• Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems.
• Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external.
• Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production.

Hybrid Work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (typically, 35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office). Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Pay and Benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,500 - $269,200. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.