Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, enabling companies to accept payments and grow their revenue. The Backend Engineer for Payments and Risk will design and maintain APIs and systems that handle large-scale money movement requests while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 2+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or 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
- Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Interested in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Good understanding and practical knowledge of cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, etc.)
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