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Backend Engineer, Core TechnologyStripe • San Francisco, CA, United States
Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Stripe • San Francisco, CA, United States
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Backend Engineer, Core Technology at 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, giving you an unprecedented opportunity to make a global impact.

Organization

Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe’s systems, and for the productivity and sentiment of its people.

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

  • Core Infrastructure – foundational platform for Stripe products and services, driving reliability, availability, efficiency and scalability.
  • Developer Infrastructure – productivity of all developers, ensuring a reliable, fast, and easy-to-use internal dev loop.
  • Data Platform – data serving infrastructure spanning analytics, streaming analytics and search capabilities.
  • Admin Platform – empowering internal products for users.
  • Application & Revenue Platform – systems that allow automated billing and regulatory reporting.
  • Service Platform – enable engineering teams to ship services that correctly, reliably, and efficiently use platform capabilities.
  • Financial Systems – platforms to automate accounting, tax, finance, and provide the source of truth for money movement.

Team Matching : exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc.

What you’ll do

Work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes, designing, building, testing, and shipping 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 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. Preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

    Minimum Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills and passion for one of the areas above.
  • Ability to write high quality code (Go, Java, C / C++ etc).
  • 2‑12+ years of professional hands‑on software development experience.
  • Hands‑on experience contributing to or building large‑scale distributed systems.
  • Strong collaboration skills, work across workstreams within a team, and contribute to peers’ success.
  • Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums.
  • Ability to thrive on autonomy, responsibility, and think entrepreneurial.
  • Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience optimizing end‑to‑end performance of distributed systems.
  • Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external.
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production.
  • In‑office expectations

    Office‑assigned Stripes in most locations are expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. Expectations may vary by role, team and location.

    Pay and benefits

    The annual US base salary range for this role is $155,700 – $281,300. For sales roles, the range includes commissions and bonuses. Applicants not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process. Additional benefits may include equity, company bonus, 401(k), medical, dental, vision, and wellness stipends.

    Seniority level

  • Mid‑Senior level
  • Employment type

  • Full‑time
  • Job function

  • Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries

  • Software Development, Financial Services, and Technology, Information and Internet
  • Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Stripe by 2x.

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