Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform

About us

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.

About the team

Stripe's Developer & End-user Experience Platform (DEEP) organization empowers all of Stripe's products with a shared product platform that helps with rapidly delivering high-quality, cross-product experiences across our UI and API surfaces. It focuses on providing a consistent and scalable developer experience that any developer (both internal and external) can leverage to accelerate a merchant's ability to create value using Stripe.

Team matching—exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. We may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

Minimum requirements

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
• Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job, so our interview process is language-agnostic)
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
• Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• 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 (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team, and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $190,400 - $285,600. 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. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

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.