Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service
Build and maintain backend APIs and large-scale systems for global money movement and balance management platforms. Requires 2+ years experience, strong coding skills, and collaboration in a distributed hybrid team.
About the job
What you’ll do
We’re looking for Backend Engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You’ll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams – from Infrastructure to Product – at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.
Responsibilities
- Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
- Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Mentor engineers to help them grow
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues
Who you are
Minimum requirements
- 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
- Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
- Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.)
Skills
APIs, gRPC, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Large-Scale Systems
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