stripe
Backend Engineer, Link (US)
About this role
Join Stripe's Link team as a Backend Engineer to build and scale the digital wallet infrastructure supporting global payments. You'll design high-performance backend systems, troubleshoot production issues across the stack, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative payment solutions.
What you'll do
- Design and build next-generation backend systems for the Link digital wallet product
- Diagnose and resolve critical production incidents across distributed services
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team growth
- Partner with cross-functional teams to implement large-scale features while improving engineering standards
- Maintain effective collaboration in a distributed, hybrid team environment
What they're looking for
- Backend software engineering (2+ years industry experience)
- Strong programming fundamentals in any language
- Distributed systems and production troubleshooting
- Large-scale financial systems (preferred)
- Cloud-based infrastructure
- API design and microservices architecture
- Cross-functional collaboration and communication
- AI/agentic workflows (preferred)
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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 a critical production issue you've debugged across multiple services—how did you approach it?
- Describe your experience mentoring engineers and helping them grow. How do you balance this with your own deliverables?