Backend Engineer, Developer SDKs, Golang Expert

Summary

Join Stripe's team as a software engineer to shape the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power over 80% of the payment volume at Stripe. As a Golang expert, you'll represent the needs of the Golang community and ensure we build experiences that are idiomatic. You'll also use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• 2+ years experience in Golang
• 1+ years experience in Node.js
• An interest in working with multiple programming languages

Responsibilities

• Be the Golang expert in the team representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic
• Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work towards a future where we open source it to make it easier for 3rd party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries
• Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process
• Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe
• Support our users reaching out to us on the open source GitHub repositories for our SDKs
• Add support for new language features in SDKs
• Help lead Stripe's API design process, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that are surfaced through our SDKs
• Influence the team’s strategy and roadmap through feedback-driven proposals, and direct engagement with our developer community on GitHub and other channels

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in the area of developer tooling
• Experience in 1 or more programming languages among .NET, Java, Python, PHP and Ruby
• Experience building libraries and/or SDKs
• Knowledge of Open API spec and protobuf