Backend / API Engineer

Who we areAbout Stripe

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 organization 

We provide leveraged and usable infrastructure for Stripes to explore innovative, new products while concurrently extending secure, reliable and cost-effective mature business lines.

Our mission is to:

• Enable Stripe product teams to rapidly build new products, and quickly iterate on existing products, to drive value for our users and Stripe.
• Provide Stripe’s product teams a secure, performant, and efficient platform for creating and maintaining their products and services
• Enable Stripe’s engineers to build scalable applications with high speed, quality and performance
• Enable Stripe’s largest users to scale their businesses on Stripe.

You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including: 

• Local Payment Methods - We are dedicated to optimizing payment experiences globally. As we are expanding our portfolio of local payment methods we are also ensuring seamless transactions tailored to regional preferences. LPM Engineering is the first team under Stripe’s Payments umbrella to establish a presence in the new Bucharest, Romania site, part of a phased expansion of the entire group’s presence here. You will have a unique opportunity to be part of a team that helps the unlocking of new markets and empowers businesses worldwide.
• Money Movement - We provide the capabilities to move and store money efficiently and reliably by integrating with the global financial system. This team is core to Stripe’s business and internal teams rely on our platform and infrastructure to create valuable products and services that billions of people use.
• Developer Infrastructure - We are responsible for making Stripe’s developers happy and productive. We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to accelerate Stripe engineering as Stripe scales. You’ll collaborate closely with partner teams in Europe, such as CI Infra and CI Services, Test Environments and Frameworks, as well as partner teams based in the US who provide language specific tooling for Engineers who develop in any of Stripe’s supported languages (Ruby, Java, Golang, Python and more).
• Compliance Foundations - Internal Controls Engineering owns systems and tools to measure and increase operational efficiency of all internal controls throughout Stripe. We build tools for owners of financial, business, and technology controls. We are part of a larger Compliance Foundations engineering organization, and work closely with our partner engineering teams to increase efficiency and predictability of compliance.
• Internal Developer Toolings - The team is responsible for accelerating Stripe’s developers and providing a positive experience. We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to enhance Stripe's engineering as it scales.The team has three main areas of responsibility. Our mission encompasses optimizing day-to-day engineering work in regards to our QA infrastructure, advancing the capabilities of the Synthetics tool, and facilitating effective service-to-service testing. Through these efforts, we aim to improve the reliability of Stripe's systems and platforms, enhance the quality of deliverables, and ultimately foster a more efficient and innovative development process.

What you’ll do

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.

Minimum Requirements 

• Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above.
• 2+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structure and algorithms
• Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems
• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Python, Java, Go, Javascript, C#, Go, PHP, Kotlin, Ruby, C++)
  Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
• Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
• Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production