Backend Engineer, Core Technology

About the Organization

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.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for Software Engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users, regardless of whether they’re an end user, developer, or partner. You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day.

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

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.

- 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)

- Ability to write well‑factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms

- Hands‑on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems

- 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, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success

- Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems

- Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external

- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

Office‑assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in‑office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in‑office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in‑person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €83,200 - €124,800. This range may change if you are hired in another location.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.

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