Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk

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.

The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending the capabilities of Stripe to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding the Stripe brand and financial stability.

• 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, with the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success

• Have the ability to thrive on 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 of cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS)

• Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process

• Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €85,000 - €127,600. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. 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 specific location.