stripe
Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk
About this role
Stripe seeks a backend engineer to design and maintain APIs and large-scale systems handling billions of payment transactions globally. You'll work across payments, checkout, and risk teams to build reliable infrastructure while mentoring peers and collaborating cross-functionally in a distributed environment.
What you'll do
- Design and build APIs and services handling billions of money movement requests at scale
- Debug and resolve critical production issues across multiple system layers
- Mentor engineers and contribute to team growth
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to develop features and improve engineering practices
- Maintain and optimize large-scale financial systems for reliability and efficiency
What they're looking for
- Backend software engineering (2+ years professional experience)
- Strong coding ability in any programming language
- API design and development
- Large-scale system design
- Collaboration and cross-functional communication
- Cloud services (gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS)
- Financial systems experience
- Production troubleshooting and debugging
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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