Backend Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Fintech): Designing and maintaining large-scale Money Management APIs and services for Stripe's Treasury products with an accent on reliability and efficiency for billions of requests. Focus on solving critical production issues, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across distributed teams to scale financial infrastructure.

Location: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom

Salary: £81,600 - £157,200

Company

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses that helps millions of companies accept payments and grow revenue.

What you will do

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems that efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
• Debug and resolve critical production issues across multiple levels of the stack.
• Mentor fellow engineers to help them grow professionally.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Infrastructure and Product Managers, to deliver innovative solutions.
• Work effectively within a distributed and hybrid team environment.

Requirements

• 2-12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to contribute to peer success.
• Ability to thrive with high autonomy and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks.
• Location: Must be based in London to support a hybrid work model.

Nice to have

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