Description
We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Core Technology team. As a Backend Engineer, you will work on building software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users. Your responsibilities will include building a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure, participating in roadmap planning and prioritization, delivering value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe, and debugging production issues across services and several levels of the stack.
You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day. You will collaborate with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe to deliver value and debug production issues.
We're looking for someone with 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience, who can write well-factored algorithms and has experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms. You should have hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems, strong coding skills in any programming language, and strong collaboration skills.
Preferred qualifications include experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems, focusing on the needs of our users, both internal and external, and holding yourself and others to a high bar when working with production.