Backend Engineer, Stripe

• We’re looking for software engineers with experience building APIs and scalable distributed systems in service based architecture
• The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement
• 3+ years in engineering across a wide range of products
• Demonstrated experience of leading initiatives across large engineering organizations, spanning multiple teams and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence tech roadmap planning and execution
• A strong passion for API design and amazing developer experiences
• Thrives in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
• Solve problems autonomously; ability to research a technical or product domain and apply your knowledge when designing and scoping projects
• Attention to detail, especially around performance, accessibility, reliability, and security

Desirable

• The API Lifecycle team is building the systems that power Stripe’s internal and public APIs
• We’re looking for people that are passionate about distilling complexity across a breadth of problems and that strive in high impact environments. We aim to create new tools and experiences that can solve hard problems for our users—both internal and external developers
• For this role, we are looking for an engineer that will build the foundation, tooling, framework, and automation required to improve Stripe’s API lifecycle (available via new API versions, SDKs, Dashboard, and other surfaces)
• These responsibilities will require that the candidate partners closely with a Release Manager and with various teams including SDK teams, product developers, docs engineers, and a host of other stakeholders
• Help define and shape the release process for Stripe’s public API infrastructure
• Build the platform and tooling necessary to enable smooth and automated rollout of API changes across their end-to-end lifecycle
• Ensure our APIs are secure, reliable, and performant
• Solve product problems and build delightful API and developer experiences for our users
• Work across different products, tech stacks, and programming languages
• Turn ambiguous problems that our developer users are facing into concrete products, from proposal, to kick-off, to building, and launching
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Collaborate, mentor and provide support to other team members