Backend / API Engineer, Payouts

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · United Kingdom · 8531 Crypto Product

Backend/API Engineer for Stripe's Payments organization, focusing on building and maintaining APIs, services, and large-scale systems for global money movement. The role involves scoping, designing, building, debugging, and mentoring engineers, with a focus on reliability and efficiency in handling billions of requests. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders is key.

What you'd actually do

  1. Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
  2. Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
  3. Mentor engineers to help them grow
  4. Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
  5. Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

Skills

Required

  • 7-12+ years of industry software engineering experience
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
  • Entrepreneurial mindset
  • Generalist approach to technology and problem-solving

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
  • Understanding of cloud-based services (gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS)

What the JD emphasized

  • 7-12+ years of industry software engineering experience
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users