What you’ll do

As a backend engineer, you’ll design, build and operate APIs, features and services. You’ll work within a team of engineers and collaborate with cross-functional partners to scope new products, support users and ship high quality products.

Responsibilities

• Scope and lead technical projects, laying the groundwork for our products to iteratively evolve and scale
   
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
   
• Support our users and keep our systems reliable and performant
   
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
   
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
   
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
   
• Produce high level internal and external documentation
   
• Collaborate, mentor and provide support to other team members
   

Who you are

We’re looking for software engineers with experience building APIs and scalable distributed systems in service based architecture.

Minimum requirements

• Have a strong technical background, with 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and APIs
   
• A passion for API design and amazing product experiences
   
• Experience building and operating highly reliable services
   
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
   
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
   
• Take pride ownership and driving projects to business impact
   
• Solve problems autonomously; ability to research a technical or product domain and apply your knowledge when designing and scoping projects