Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Stripe and become a key contributor to their infrastructure team, responsible for the reliability, scale, and performance of their systems. You will design, build, test, and ship high-quality code daily, focusing on creating a great customer experience for both internal and external teams. Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, participate in roadmap planning, and debug production issues across various services. The ideal candidate possesses strong software engineering skills, experience with large-scale distributed systems, and a passion for one of Stripe's key infrastructure areas. A collaborative spirit and customer obsession are essential. This role offers a high level of autonomy and responsibility.

Requirements

• 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 structure 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, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
• Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
• Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production