[Remote] Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses that enables companies to accept payments and grow their revenue. The role involves building and maintaining APIs and services for managing money at a global scale, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.

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 and support engineers' growth
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Skills

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internship or co-op experience)
• 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
• Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial approach to your work
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
• Good understanding and practical knowledge of cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, etc.)

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