Backend Engineer, Stripe

• 5+ 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
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
• 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
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise
• You’re comfortable dealing with many moving pieces, you work effectively across teams and functions, and you have exquisite attention to detail
• You’re looking forward to learning new technologies, systems, and problem domains. If this resonates with you, do apply!

Desirable

• Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career
• The Seller Systems team owns several systems and processes that support the sales process at Stripe including opportunity management, pricing, contract, onboarding, and realization
• We are looking for people with a strong background or interest in working across these domains to build successful platforms and systems
• 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 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