Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform whose Infrastructure organization builds and operates systems that support the reliability, scale, performance, and productivity of the company. The Backend Engineer will design, build, test, and ship infrastructure code, collaborate with teams and stakeholders, and debug production issues across services and stack layers.

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

Preferred

Experience optimizing the 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

Distributed Systems Optimization

Production Systems Experience

User Focus

High Standards

Benefits

Equity

Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Hybrid work: available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office)

Company

Financial services platform for business payments and billing

South San Francisco, California, USA

https://stripe.com/

Founded in 2010

5001-10000 employees

Qualifications

Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above

Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.)

2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience

able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures 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 and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms

Experience optimizing the 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

Required skills

Go, Java, C/C++, Algorithms, Data Structures, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems Performance Optimization

Preferred skills

Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external

Experience

2+ years