Backend / API Engineer, Risk
Seattle, San Francisco or Remote
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesâfrom the worldâs largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsâuse Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyoneâs reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Stripeâs mission is to build the economic infrastructure for the internet. Data Migrations Engineering helps users grow their business by providing a consistent, great experience when migrating sensitive data onto Stripe or between Stripe accounts.
The Risk group consists of backend and full stack engineers who tackle this problem through creative new product ideas and scalable infrastructure. We are undertaking several new efforts, where you can have an outsized impact on the architecture, implementation, and design choices behind these systems.
What youâll do
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems
- Collaborate with other engineers across Stripe, as well as stakeholders across product, design, legal, and operations
- Build easy to use systems that enable safe migrations of data
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Who you are
Weâre looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 2+ years of industry experience shipping high-quality products
- Enjoy and have experience building scalable backend infrastructure
- Strong analytical capability and ability to quickly ramp up in a new area, and tackle ambiguous problems
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
- Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact
- Thrive in a collaborative environment
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Hybrid work at Stripe
This role is available either in an office or a remote location (typically, 35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).
Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or âŚ
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Hybrid work at Stripe
Benefits/Perks401(k) Plan Company bonus or sales commissions Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses Competitive salary range Equity Hybrid work Hybrid work options Medical, dental, and vision benefits Wellness stipends
SkillsAnalytical API API Development Backend Backend Engineering Backend Infrastructure Collaboration Design Financial Infrastructure Infrastructure Operations Payments Sales Services
Education TimezonesAmerica/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9