Build payment APIs and financial systems at Stripe, managing billions of money movement requests across distributed and hybrid teams.
As a Backend Engineer, you will extend Stripe’s balance management platform and build a funds accessibility platform for enterprises and SMBs. The Payments and Risk organization develops payment acceptance, checkout, Link, and risk products. You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Product, and stakeholders across the company to address evolving user needs. The role supports generalist engineers working across technologies and stacks.
Key Responsibilities
Design and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems
Handle billions of money movement requests reliably
Debug critical production issues across multiple stack levels
Mentor engineers and support their growth
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Requirements
Two to twelve-plus years of industry software engineering experience
Solid coding skills in any programming language
Strong collaboration skills across team workstreams
Ability to work autonomously and take responsibility
Interest in generalist work across technologies and stacks
Apply backend engineering, coding, and collaboration skills to Stripe’s global payments and financial infrastructure.