Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk

United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
Mentor and support engineers' growth
Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes Who you are

Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial approach to your work
Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
Good understanding and practical knowledge of cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, etc.)

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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
The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently.
This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments.
Optimized Checkout and Link teams work to create best-in-class checkout experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and drive merchant conversion rates.
The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding Stripe's brand and financial stability.
Sub-orgs: Link & OCS, Payments Acceptance, Risk