Senior Backend Engineer - Developer SDKs, Golang Expert

About the Role

Join Stripe as a Senior Backend Engineer focusing on Developer SDKs with a specialization in Golang. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power over 80% of the payment volume at Stripe.

Responsibilities

• Golang Expertise: Be the Golang expert in the team, representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic.
• Node.js Development: Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work towards a future where we open source it to make it easier for third-party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process.
• API Authoring: Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe.
• User Support: Support our users reaching out to us on the open-source GitHub repositories for our SDKs.
• Language Features: Add support for new language features in SDKs.
• API Design: Help lead Stripe's API design process, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that are surfaced through our SDKs.
• Strategy and Roadmap: Influence the team’s strategy and roadmap through feedback-driven proposals and direct engagement with our developer community on GitHub and other channels.

Who You Are

We are 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

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• 2+ years experience in Golang.
• 1+ years experience in Node.js.
• An interest in working with multiple programming languages.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in the area of developer tooling.
• Experience in 1 or more programming languages among .NET, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby.
• Experience building libraries and/or SDKs.
• Knowledge of Open API spec and protobuf.

Work Environment

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.

A remote location, in most cases, is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $163,100 - $244,700. 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.