Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team Stripe's Developer & End-user Experience Platform (DEEP) organization empowers all of Stripe's products with a shared product platform that helps with rapidly delivering high-quality, cross-product experiences across our UI and API surfaces. It focuses on providing a consistent and scalable developer experience that any developer (both internal and external) can leverage to accelerate a merchant's ability to create value using Stripe.

Team matching — exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here .

What you’ll do We're looking for Backend Engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform that enterprises and SMBs use. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams—from Infrastructure to Product—at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.

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

Who you are We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)

Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job, so our interview process is language-agnostic)

Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success

Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset

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 and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)