Backend / API Engineer, Stripe

• 6+ years of backend and/or full stack software development experience
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and acting as a leader more broadly—leading by example and delivering critical feedback to uphold a high quality bar
• Are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact
• Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise

Desirable

• As a backend engineer, you will design and build platforms and services that are configurable and scalable to handle the complex transactions. You will partner with many functions at Stripe, including Engineers, Data Scientists, Strategists and product leaders
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end
• Craft new products and features that impact millions of people and businesses around the world
• Explore creative opportunities for next-gen payments experiences that leverage the depth of Stripe’s payment technology
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and operations
• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter