Staff Backend Engineer - UI Platform

Stripe
Barcelona
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Communication","Mentorship","Cross-functional collaboration","Technical decision-making"]

Help define the technical direction for backend services that power Stripe’s user interfaces. As a Staff Software Engineer on the UI Platform (Sail) team, you’ll lead strategy, design, and delivery of scalable backend-for-frontend capabilities, build reusable platform features for product teams, and partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to connect design systems, SDKs, APIs, and backend services. Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews and mentorship.

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Staff Backend Engineer - UI Platform

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Job Summary

Help define the technical direction for backend services that power Stripe’s user interfaces. As a Staff Software Engineer on the UI Platform (Sail) team, you’ll lead strategy, design, and delivery of scalable backend-for-frontend capabilities, build reusable platform features for product teams, and partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to connect design systems, SDKs, APIs, and backend services. Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews and mentorship.
Location: Barcelona
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define cross-team technical strategy, architecture, and a multi-year roadmap for backend services powering Stripe’s merchant-facing experiences
  • •Lead design and delivery of scalable backend services that provide product teams a consistent foundation for reliable user experiences
  • •Build reusable platform capabilities that help product teams develop, operate, and improve products with confidence
  • •Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to connect design systems, SDKs, APIs, and backend services
  • •Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship to improve team quality and effectiveness

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years building complex, reliable, scalable APIs or distributed systems
  • •Track record leading technical design and delivery of large projects across multiple engineering teams
  • •Experience setting technical direction and translating strategy into an executable roadmap
  • •Ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs with engineering, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership
Experience:10+ yearsDistributed systemsDeveloper platformsDesign systemsUI infrastructure
Skills:Technical leadershipCommunicationMentorshipCross-functional collaborationTechnical decision-making
Languages:English
Tech Stack:APIsDistributed systemsBackend-for-frontendDesign systemsSoftware development kits (SDKs)Feature flaggingExperimentationTelemetryAnalytics systems

Company Brief

Stripe
Provides payment processing APIs and financial infrastructure for internet businesses. Powers online payments for millions of companies from startups to Fortune 500s.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2010
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