Backend / API Engineer, Stripe

• Have a strong technical background, including 3+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems
• Understand good practices of building and working with APIs
• Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code Internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team
• Care deeply about mentorship and growing engineers and managers
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Sales and Support to better understand our customers’ needs, Legal and Accounting to understand how global policies influence our money-moving infrastructure, etc
• [If based outside Dublin] Willing to relocate to Dublin

Desirable

• Backend Engineers at Stripe are comfortable working on new products under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
• Independently scope and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale
• Design, build, maintain, and evolve APIs and services
• Work with our partners to launch new markets, payment methods, and capabilities
• 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
• Internalize the best ideas from across the organization and humbly set a vision that others are excited to get behind