Backend Engineer, Core Technology

You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including:

• Core Infrastructure
• Developer Infrastructure
• Data Infrastructure
• Admin Platform
• Service Platform
• Developer Productivity AI

Team matching

Exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process here.

What you'll work on

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

About the role

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use 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 everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

Benefits

• A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office.
• Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location.
• The annual US base salary range for this role is $156,800 - $235,200. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location.
• 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.