Backend / API Engineer, Local Payment Methods

Requirements

• Have a strong technical background, including 5+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems
• Understand good practices of building and working with APIs
• Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code Internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team
• Care deeply about mentorship and growing engineers and managers
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Sales and Support to better understand our customers’ needs, Legal and Accounting to understand how global policies influence our money-moving infrastructure, etc.

Nice to Haves

• Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products you build
• Have experience with financial product companies and interest in financial products and markets
• Served as the technical lead and defined the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions

What You'll Be Doing

• Scope and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
• Work with our partners to launch new markets, payment methods, and capabilities
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Teach and mentor both individual contributors and managers to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe. As a senior member on a new team, you will be looked to for guidance

Perks and Benefits