Backend / API Engineer, Payouts

What you'll do

We're looking for backend engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams – from Infrastructure to Product – at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.

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

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

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, and 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/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)