Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that provides businesses with payment and revenue-growth solutions. The Backend Engineer will design, build, test, and ship code for infrastructure projects, collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, and debug production issues across distributed services and stack levels.

What you'll do:

• 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

What they're looking for:

• 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 structures 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 and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
• Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems
• Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

Benefits:

• Hybrid work: available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).
• Equity
• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Wellness stipends