Backend Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Fintech): Building and maintaining scalable APIs and large-scale systems for global money movement and balance management platforms with an accent on reliability and efficiency. Focus on designing ergonomic APIs, solving critical production issues, and collaborating across distributed teams.

Company

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform enabling businesses worldwide to accept payments and grow revenue.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems handling billions of money movement requests
• Debug and resolve critical production issues across multiple stack levels
• Mentor engineers to support their growth
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build new features and improve engineering standards
• Work effectively in a distributed and hybrid team environment

Requirements

• 2-12+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong coding skills in any programming language
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously and entrepreneurially
• Interest in working across varying technologies and stacks

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
• Practical knowledge of cloud-based services such as gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS