About this role
Job title: Backend Engineer
About the Role Stripe is seeking backend engineers to manage money at a global scale, focusing on extending the balance management platform and building a new funds accessibility platform for enterprises and SMBs. This role sits within the Payments organization and Risk Engineering teams, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable APIs and services.
What You'll Do
- 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
What We're Looking For
- 7-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (internships or co-ops not included)
- Strong coding skills in any programming language (interview process is language-agnostic)
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to peers' success
- Ability to thrive with autonomy and responsibility, and an entrepreneurial mindset
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Nice to Have
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Knowledge of cloud-based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, etc.)
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: £81,600 - £157,200 (primary location: London)
- Benefits/additional compensation may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends
- Office location: London