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.
About the job
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
Go, Node.js, API Design, SDKs, Openapi, Protobuf, PHP, Ruby
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