# Backend Engineer, Payments

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** APIs, gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Cloud Services, Financial Tracking Systems
**Posted:** 2026-08-18

> Build and maintain large-scale APIs and services for balance management and money movement platforms serving enterprises and SMBs. The role requires 2–12+ years of software engineering experience, strong coding and collaboration skills, and interest in generalist backend systems work.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
- Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Mentor engineers to help them grow.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large scale while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues.

## Requirements
- 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience, excluding internships and co-ops.
- Strong coding skills in any programming language.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams while contributing to peers’ success.
- Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems for internal and external users.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
- Practical knowledge of cloud-based services, including gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

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