Backend Engineer/api, Payments and Risk

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · Ireland · 8556 LPM Core - Eng

Backend Engineer role at Stripe, focusing on building and maintaining APIs, services, and large-scale systems for payments and risk management. The role involves handling billions of money movement requests, debugging production issues, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions. Requires strong coding skills and experience in software engineering, with a preference for financial tracking systems and cloud services.

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

  • 2-12+ 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, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
  • Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • managing money at a global scale
  • large-scale systems
  • critical production issues
  • large-scale