Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk
Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk
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Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the worlds 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the Organization
The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments enabling regional non-card payment options and extending Stripes capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience thereby safeguarding Stripes brand and financial stability.
Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams within this org will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience location etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.
What youll do
Were looking for Backend engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. Youll 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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Were 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
- 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
- Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy responsibility and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC GraphQL Docker/Kubernetes cloud services such as AWS etc.)
Employment Type
Full Time
