Backend Engineer

Requirements

• A strong technical background, including 6+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems.
• Solid understanding of best practices in designing, building, and working with APIs.
• You are comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, balancing tactical and strategic considerations.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.

Nice to Haves

• Have experience ensuring great user experiences and ease of use in the 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

• Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale, and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems.
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services.
• Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions.
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making thoughtful tradeoffs that balance business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent.
• Mentor engineers earlier in their technical careers to help them grow.

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunity to have a significant impact and grow in the role.
• Collaborate cross-functionally and raise the bar for operational excellence.
• Work on critical user journeys across various financial products at Stripe.