Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · United States · 8127 Core Infrastructure

Backend Engineer, Core Technology at Stripe, focusing on building and scaling foundational infrastructure for various critical business areas including Core Infrastructure, Developer Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Admin Platform, and Service Platform. The role involves designing, building, testing, and shipping code for internal and external Stripe teams, debugging production issues, and participating in roadmap planning. While the 'Developer Productivity AI' team is mentioned, this specific role is in Core Technology, implying a focus on general infrastructure rather than direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure
  2. Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
  3. Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe
  4. Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack

Skills

Required

  • Strong software engineering skills
  • Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc)
  • 2-12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
  • Able to write well-factored algorithms
  • Experience with commonly used data structure and algorithms
  • Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Customer obsession
  • Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Nice to have

  • Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
  • Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production