Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

We're looking for a skilled Backend/API Engineer to join our team at Stripe, where you'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and building out a new funds accessibility platform. As a Backend Engineer, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.

Responsibilities:

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Mentor engineers to help them grow
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

Requirements:

• 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience
• Strong coding skills in any programming language
• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
• Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
• Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)