Backend Engineer building elegant APIs, user experiences, and critical systems that power financial decision-making and credit decisions at Stripe. Requires 6+ years experience across the stack with languages like Java/Python, distributed systems, and cloud tools including AWS/Kubernetes.
173k – 260k/yr
Hybrid6+ YOEBackend Engineering
About the role
Responsibilities
Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end.
Collaborate with engineers, designers, data scientists, and product managers to develop new features and products.
Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes encountered.
Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses.
Contribute to the design and architecture of the next generation of infrastructure to meet high growth needs.
Work alongside peer engineering teams, data scientists and strategy partners to design and implement critical systems that power financial decision-making.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, plus six (6) years of experience in Software Development.
Six (6) years of experience with/in:
Working across the stack and navigating codebases with different languages, including 2 of the following: Java, Ruby, Scala, Python, or SQL.
Tools including: Spark, IDE, and AWS.
Developing user-facing experiences and writing queries for analyzing experiment results.
Distributed computing or large-scale distributed systems.
Cloud based services, including: gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS.
Compensation
Base salary: $173000 - $259600/yr (any sales commissions or bonuses would be in addition).
Additional benefits may include: equity, company bonus, 401(k) plan, medical/dental/vision benefits, wellness stipends.
40 hrs/week.
50% Telecommuting permitted.
Skills
JavaRubyScalaPythonSQLSparkAWSgRPCGraphQLDockerKubernetesDistributed Systems
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