Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Responsibilities

• Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe
• Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack

Minimum Requirements

• Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above
• Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc)
• 2-12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structure and algorithms
• Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems
• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
• Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production