Stripe
Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk
1 нед. назад
156.8k–235.2k USD / годСШАMiddleHybrid
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Backend Engineer role at Stripe focused on payment processing and risk management systems with opportunities to work on large-scale APIs and financial infrastructure.
About the company
- 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.
- Payments and Risk is a sub-organization focusing on products and platforms to efficiently accept payments and manage financial and regulatory risks.
- The Payments organization builds APIs and platforms for payment acceptance, including regional and in-person payments.
- The Risk Engineering team develops products to minimize financial and regulatory risks while maintaining a seamless user experience and protecting Stripe's brand and financial stability.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 2+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
- Strong coding skills in any programming language (interview process is language agnostic)
- Strong collaboration skills; can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
- Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Interested in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Good understanding and practical knowledge of cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, etc.)
Conditions
- On-site (New York, Seattle) or remote within 35 miles of a Stripe office
- Salary: 156800–235200 USD per year