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Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk

Stripe
hybrid senior full-time Dublin, Ireland
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First indexed 31 Mar 2026

Description

We're looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to join our Payments and Risk team. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in extending our balance management platform and building out a new funds accessibility platform. Your expertise will be essential in designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and large-scale systems that handle billions of money movement requests.

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.)

If you meet the minimum requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stripe/jobs/4921361