Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk

Stripe
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 2-12 yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Mentoring","Problem-solving","Teamwork"]

Backend engineer at Stripe who builds and maintains APIs and large-scale systems for billions of money movement requests, focusing on balancing payment platforms and risk tools. You’ll work across cross-functional teams, mentor peers, and help scale a balance management platform and funds accessibility features for enterprises and SMBs in a distributed/hybrid environment.

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Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk

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Job Summary

Backend engineer at Stripe who builds and maintains APIs and large-scale systems for billions of money movement requests, focusing on balancing payment platforms and risk tools. You’ll work across cross-functional teams, mentor peers, and help scale a balance management platform and funds accessibility features for enterprises and SMBs in a distributed/hybrid environment.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key 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

Key Requirements

  • •2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
  • •Strong coding skills in any programming language (language agnostic)
  • •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
Experience:2-12 yearsPaymentsFintech
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationMentoringProblem-solvingTeamwork
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GRPCGraphQLDockerKubernetesAWSAPIs

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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