Stripe is hiring a Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform in 8116 Developer Platform - Eng — SEA, SF, NY, Toronto. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on stripe.com: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
Who we are
About Stripe
Company context from the listing:
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.
About the team
Company context from the listing:
Stripe's Developer & End-user Experience Platform (DEEP) organization empowers all of Stripe's products with a shared product platform that helps with rapidly delivering high-quality, cross-product experiences across our UI and API surfaces. It focuses on providing a consistent and scalable developer experience that any developer (both internal and external) can leverage to accelerate a merchant's ability to create value using Stripe.
Team matching — exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc.
What you’ll do
Day-to-day scope for the Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform as described in the posting:
The listing frames the Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform at Stripe as a hands-on product role. You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform that enterprises and SMBs use. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams—from Infrastructure to Product—at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day scope for the Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform as described in the posting:
- 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
Who you are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
The listing frames the Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform at Stripe as a hands-on product role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 2–12+ 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 and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
- Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Preferred qualifications
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)