# Backend Engineer, Link

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** New York, NY, Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Toronto, Canada
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** backend engineering, cloud services, Distributed Systems, financial systems, AI, Agentic Workflows, production debugging, Software Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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