Job Description

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Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to startupsuse Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, offering an unprecedented opportunity to impact the global economy while advancing your career.

The Payments and Risk organization within Stripe develops products and platforms for efficient payment acceptance, including APIs for processing payments, regional payment options, and in-person payment solutions. The Risk Engineering team minimizes financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience.

We are looking for Backend engineers passionate about managing money at a global scale and building ergonomic APIs. You will help extend our balance management platform and develop a new funds accessibility platform used by enterprises and SMBs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems handling billions of money movement requests.
• Debug and resolve critical production issues across services and stack levels.
• Mentor engineers to foster growth.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop new features, improve standards, tooling, and processes.
• Work effectively in a distributed and hybrid team environment.

Minimum Requirements

• 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (excluding internships and co-ops).
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Excellent collaboration skills across workstreams.
• Ability to work autonomously with responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Interest in working across technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight users.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
• Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS).

Work Environment & Benefits

Stripe offers hybrid work, with at least 50% office presence. The annual US base salary ranges from $150,500 to $269,200, with additional benefits including equity, bonuses, 401(k), health benefits, and wellness stipends.

Additional Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and IT
• Industries: Software Development, Financial Services, Internet

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