Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk (US) Job at Stripe, San Francisco, CA

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  • Stripe
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk (US)

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Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

About The Organization
The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments.

What youll do
Were looking for Backend engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. Youll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike.

  • 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

Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

  • 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language
  • Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers success
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
  • Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services

The annual US base salary range for this role is $187,500 - $281,300. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

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