Backend / API Engineer, Stripe

• 3+ years of experience in data modeling, API design, distributed systems and data pipeline development
• Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry
• Think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high quality code. We work mostly in Java, Scala, and Ruby
• However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts

Desirable

• As a backend engineer, you will design and build platforms, tooling, and system solutions that are configurable and scalable around the globe
• You will partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on infrastructure/platform systems, as well as produce direct user-facing business impact
• Design APIs and data models that facilitate complex system integrations
• Design, build and maintain large-scale production services and data pipelinesDesign APIs and data models that facilitate complex system integrations
• Design, build and maintain large-scale production services and data pipelines
• Work on systems critical to Stripe’s current and future operation, with responsibility for billions of dollars of payments volume
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company including engineering, product, operations, finance, data science, accounting, sales, and operations
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes