# Backend Engineer, Data

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Scala, Spark, Apache Airflow, Java, SQL, Python, Go, Hadoop, Pig, LLMs, Data Pipelines, Data Marts, Data Services, Data Quality, Full-Stack Web Applications
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Build and own data pipelines, models, marts, and services supporting Product, Data Science, and go-to-market teams. The role requires 6+ years of software engineering experience, distributed data processing expertise, backend development skills, and strong SQL.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and own data pipelines, models, and products that power Product, Data Science, and go-to-market functions.
- Develop subject matter expertise and manage service-level agreements for data pipelines and full-stack web applications supporting critical stakeholders.
- Build and refine data foundations, including infrastructure, pipelines, and tools, using Scala, Spark, and Airflow.
- Leverage LLMs and agents at scale to produce high-quality data for ambiguous problems.
- Refine data marts that help the go-to-market organization forecast business performance and measure attainment toward targets.
- Build data services that track key product metrics and measure the impact of field-team strategies.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, focused on building and maintaining data services or data-intensive applications.
- Strong engineering background and interest in data.
- Experience writing and debugging data pipelines using a distributed data framework such as Spark, Hadoop, or Pig.
- Ability to investigate data inconsistencies and resolve deep-rooted data quality issues.
- Knowledge of a backend development language such as Scala, Java, or Go.
- Strong SQL experience.
- Ability to communicate cross-functionally, derive requirements, and architect shared datasets.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience creating and maintaining data marts for business reporting.
- Experience working with Product or go-to-market teams, including Sales and Marketing.

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