# Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Dublin, Ireland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stripe/jobs/4921361
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d7942b9e-a73

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- API design
- large-scale system development
- cloud-based services
- collaboration
- autonomy

### Nice to have
- gRPC
- GraphQL
- Docker/Kubernetes
- AWS