Backend Engineer

About The Role

We are seeking a Backend Engineer for our Payments and Risk organization at Stripe. You will design, build, and maintain APIs and large-scale systems that handle billions of money movement requests globally.

Responsibilities

• Create ergonomic APIs and robust backend services to support payment processing and risk management.
• Solve critical production issues across the full technology stack.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Infrastructure and Product in a distributed environment.

Who You Are

We are looking for generalist backend engineers with 2+ years of experience who possess strong coding skills (language agnostic) and can thrive autonomously. Preferred candidates have experience with large-scale financial tracking systems, gRPC/GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, or other cloud services.