Backend Engineer, Stripe

• Have a strong technical background, with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• A passion for designing and delivering and amazing full-stack product experiences - backend and frontend
• Experience building and operating highly reliable services
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• Take pride ownership and driving projects to business impact
• Solve problems autonomously; ability to research a technical or product domain and apply your knowledge when designing and scoping projects

Desirable

• As a backend engineer, you’ll design, build and operate APIs, features and services.
• You’ll work within a team of engineers and collaborate with cross-functional partners to scope new products, support users and ship high quality products
• Scope and lead technical projects, laying the groundwork for our products to iteratively evolve and scale
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
• Support our users and keep our systems reliable and performant
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Produce high level internal and external documentation
• Mentor and provide support to other team members
• The Currency Management team is looking for a highly motivated engineer to support our merchants ability to transact globally.
• This will involve solving complex problems related to foreign exchange, crossborder money movement and much more!