Stripe is hiring a
Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Stripe as a Backend Engineer to design and build platforms, tooling, and system solutions that are configurable and scalable around the globe. As a member of the Seller Systems team, you will partner with many functions at Stripe to work on infrastructure/platform systems and produce direct user-facing business impact.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data modeling, API design, distributed systems and data pipeline development
• Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
• Think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high quality code. We work mostly in Java, Scala, and Ruby
• However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise

Responsibilities

• Design APIs and data models that facilitate complex system integrations
• Design, build and maintain large-scale production services and data pipelines
• Work on systems critical to Stripe’s current and future operation, with responsibility for billions of dollars of payments volume
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company including engineering, product, operations, finance, data science, accounting, sales, and operations
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Salesforce data models and best practices for integrating Salesforce with other systems
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments, particularly in managing authentication and authorization between systems