Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.

Money as a Service (MaaS) oversees a diverse portfolio of core Stripe products and platforms. These offerings facilitate the global movement and management of funds for users. The teams that fall under the MaaS umbrella include Accounts and Connect, Money Movement and Storage (MMS), Crypto, and Banking as a Service (BaaS).

• 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 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

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)

• 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 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, with an entrepreneurial mindset

• 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 in cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)

• Equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses

• 401(k) plan

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits

• Wellness stipends

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $190,400 - $285,600. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location.