Backend / API Engineer, Stripe

• Strong technical background, including 2+ years of experience as a backend engineer, with an affinity for building scalable backend infrastructure
• Experience delivering, extending, and maintaining large scale distributed systems
• The skills to build holistically – from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact
• Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from colleagues at all levels
• Think about systems and services and write high quality code. We work mostly in Ruby, with some Scala and Go. However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
• You 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
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise (for example, ¼ of Stripes work in a country that’s different from the one they grew up in)
• Almost every role at Stripe collaborates with some engineers, from Sales and Support in sharing feedback from our customers; to Legal and Accounting in supporting our systems for tracking money movement and reporting around the world

Desirable

• Backend Engineers on the team will design and build end-to-end features fundamental to the onboarding and management experience of every Connect user, including Stripe’s largest Connect users with complex integrations
• We are seeking engineers who are excited to develop features for these foundations as well as their higher-level dashboard surfaces, delivering best-in-class product experiences for our users
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams
• Solve problems end-to-end across a variety of systems and services, in close collaboration with other engineers on your team
• Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams to deliver delightful developer experiences and comprehensive interfaces with core account and money movement primitives
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes