# Staff Backend Engineer, Privy

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** API Development, Data Modeling, Database Migrations, Infrastructure Configuration, Distributed Systems, Blockchain Protocols, Smart Contracts, Authentication, Identity Management, Security
**Posted:** 2026-06-24

> Design and build backend systems powering wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure. Lead technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Design and build the backend systems that power wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure at scale
- Create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to build faster
- Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform
- Help shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work

## Who you are
### Minimum requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
- An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
- Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
- An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- A growth mindset, a constant curiosity, and fearlessness to dive into the unknown
- An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation

### Preferred qualifications
- Experience in an API-driven business within payments, fintech, or crypto
- Built or contributed to open-source developer tooling
- Published work (open source code, talks, blog posts, etc.)
- Experience working with blockchain protocols and designing or interacting with smart contracts
- Experience in authentication, identity, or security

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