stripe
Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform
About this role
Stripe seeks a Backend Engineer to build and maintain APIs and large-scale systems powering global money movement. You'll design ergonomic platforms for balance management and funds accessibility while collaborating across teams to deliver innovative financial infrastructure solutions.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain APIs and services handling billions of money movement requests at scale
- Debug and resolve critical production issues across multiple service layers
- Mentor and support other engineers in their professional growth
- Collaborate cross-functionally to build new features while improving engineering standards and tooling
- Work effectively in a distributed, hybrid team environment with strong communication
What they're looking for
- Backend API design and development
- Large-scale distributed systems
- Production debugging and troubleshooting
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
- gRPC or GraphQL
- Financial systems experience
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Mentorship and technical leadership
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stripe
Stripe builds payment infrastructure and financial services platforms, offering APIs and tools that enable developers and businesses to process transactions, detect fraud, verify identity, and manage security at scale. The company is hiring Backend Engineers, Full Stack Engineers, ML Engineers, AI Engineers, and Security Engineers to develop core platform systems, payment intelligence, customer support infrastructure, and security data platforms.
- Website
- stripe.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience designing APIs that handle high transaction volumes. How did you ensure reliability and efficiency?
- Tell us about a time you debugged a critical production issue affecting multiple services. What was your approach?