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StripeStripeNew York, NY

Backend Engineer, Link

Build and scale backend products and infrastructure for global payments, resolve production issues, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams. The role requires 2–10+ years of industry software engineering experience, strong coding and collaboration skills, and an interest in backend systems.

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Hybrid2+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build and design the next generation of products to meet the high-growth needs of the company and customers.
  • Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
  • Mentor engineers and help them grow.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build large-scale features while improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
  • Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues.

Requirements

  • 2–10+ years of industry software engineering experience, excluding internships and co-ops.
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language.
  • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across team workstreams and contribute to peers' success.
  • Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
  • Interest in working as a backend specialist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems for internal and external users.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
  • Good understanding and practical knowledge of cloud-based services.
  • Experience with, or enthusiasm for, building with AI and agentic workflows.

Skills

backend engineeringcloud servicesDistributed Systemsfinancial systemsAIAgentic Workflowsproduction debuggingSoftware Engineering
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