Backend Engineer, Link

Stripe is a financial technology company that builds payment and digital transaction solutions, including the Link digital wallet. The Backend Engineer will design and build Stripe products and scalable infrastructure, debug production issues, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to improve features, tooling, and engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Build and design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high-growth needs of our company and customers for years to come
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Mentor engineers to help them grow
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

Preferred

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
• Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services
• Experience with, or enthusiasm for, building with AI and agentic workflows
• Financial Tracking Systems
• Cloud-Based Services
• AI Development
• Agentic Workflows
• Enthusiasm for AI

Benefits

• Purchase protections on eligible items
• Distributed and hybrid team

Company

• Financial services platform for business payments and billing
• South San Francisco, California, USA
• https://stripe.com/
• Founded in 2010
• 5001-10000 employees

Qualifications

• 2–10+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
• Strong coding skills in any programming language
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
• Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset
• Interest in working as a backend specialist 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 in cloud-based services
• Experience with, or enthusiasm for, building with AI and agentic workflows

Required skills

• , Backend Development, Large-Scale Financial Tracking Systems, AI and Agentic Workflows

Preferred skills

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems

Experience

• 2+ years