Backend Engineer, Link

Who we are

About the Organization

Link is a digital wallet designed for effortless and secure online payments and digital transactions. With Link consumers enjoy convenience and peace of mind: it works on any device or browser is backed by the highest security mechanisms offers purchase protections on eligible items and ensures seamless and quick payments. Across the Link Engineering org we focus on building delightful payment experiences and to allow our global consumer base to pay with their preferred payment methods. Our teams work spans the entire stack from front-end experiences to infrastructure that supports low-latency transactions to intelligent systems that help protect consumers and merchants from bad actors.

Team Matching: exact team matching 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 engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale. Youll play a key role in expanding our product suite and the infrastructure that supports it. 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
• Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers for years to come.
• 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

• 2-10 years of backend software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
• Strong coding skills in any programming language
• 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.)