Backend / API Engineer, Stripe

• 4+ years of experience shipping high-quality products
• An entrepreneurial mindset
• Thrived in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Taken pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
• Put themselves in the shoes of your users and be a steward of crafting great experiences
• Enjoyed working with a diverse group of people with different expertise
• Upholds best practices in engineering, security, and design
• Can put yourself in the shoes of your users and be a steward of crafting great experiences

Desirable

• As an engineer on the Stripe Tax team, you will have the opportunity to work on one of Stripe’s newest products
• Stripe Tax launched recently, in June 2021, so we’re still in our early days, which means ample opportunity for impact and growth
• As a backend / API engineer on the team, you will build and expand APIs and services, working with other engineers to build delightful features that span all of the varying integration paths that Stripe offers, as well as working with our sales and operations teams to understand and solve our users’ pain points
• Despite being a backend-focussed engineer, when needed you do not shy away from jumping at the opportunity to work directly on some of the UI surfaces our merchants interact with
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end
• Build experiences for businesses that range from high growth startups to leading global companies providing them with the tools so they can run their business and not worry about tax
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing and operations
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
• Work on the Stripe Dashboard for merchants
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack