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StripeStripeUnited States

Backend Engineer, Developer SDKs

Backend Engineer building and maintaining Stripe's official SDKs and code generation framework across multiple languages with a focus on Golang and developer experience. Requires 6+ years engineering experience including 3+ years with Golang, passion for API design, and interest in multiple languages.

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Remote6+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What you’ll do

  • Shape the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power over 80% of the payment volume at Stripe.
  • Be the Golang expert on the team, representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic.
  • Use Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work toward a future where we open source it to make it easier for third-party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries.
  • Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process.
  • Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe.
  • Support our users reaching out to us on the open-source GitHub repositories for our SDKs.
  • Add support for new language features in SDKs.
  • Help lead the API design process at Stripe, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that surface through our SDKs.
  • Collaborate, mentor, and provide support to other team members.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

  • 6+ years in engineering across a wide range of products.
  • 3+ years of experience as a Golang software engineer.
  • An interest in working with multiple programming languages.
  • A passion for API design and developer experience.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience in PHP and Ruby.
  • Experience building libraries and/or SDKs.
  • Knowledge of Open API spec and protobuf.

Skills

GoNode.jsAPI DesignSDKsOpenapiProtobufPHPRuby
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