# Backend Engineer, Developer SDKs

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: N/A
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Overview

As a Backend Engineer on our Developer SDKs team, you will have the opportunity to shape the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power over 80% of the payment volume at Stripe.

## Responsibilities

- Be the Golang expert on the team, representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic

- Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work toward a future where we open source it to make it easier for third-party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries

- Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process

- Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe

- Support our users reaching out to us on the open-source GitHub repositories for our SDKs

- Add support for new language features in SDKs

- Help lead the API design process at Stripe, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that surface through our SDKs

- Collaborate, mentor, and provide support to other team members

## Requirements

- 6+ years in engineering across a wide range of products

- 3+ years of experience as a Golang software engineer

- An interest in working with multiple programming languages

- A passion for API design and developer experience

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in PHP and Ruby

- Experience building libraries and/or SDKs

- Knowledge of Open API spec and protobuf

## Skills

### Required
- Golang
- Node.js
- API design
- SDK development

### Nice to have
- PHP
- Ruby
- Open API spec
- protobuf
- library development

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