Backend Engineer - API Platform

Details

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. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About The Team

Stripe’s API is one of our most important product surface areas and is used by customers to transact over $1 trillion in payment volume yearly. Our customers want an excellent API experience, including logs for every API request and deep insight into their rate limits. Behind the scenes, the API is built by multiple Stripe product teams, who want to design and ship new endpoints with speed, quality, and confidence. API Platform builds and operates the systems that support Stripe’s APIs, webhooks and Dashboard.

What you’ll do

• Build amazing end-to-end API and developer experiences
• Build Stripe’s public API infrastructure and tooling
• Ensure our APIs are secure, reliable, and performant
• Solve product problems and build delightful API and developer experiences for our users

Who you are

• 2-5 years of professional software development experience in the domain of distributed systems and service oriented architecture, including technical leadership of projects
• Experience in architecting and designing large-scale systems that delivered meaningful impact to a business
• Skilled in working across infrastructure and product teams - building alignment, driving decision making, and communicating transparently
• Passionate about improving productivity and developer experience of internal product teams
• Eager to learn and effective at giving and receiving constructive feedback to/from peer engineers

Hybrid work at Stripe

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €81,600 - €122,400. 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. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

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.

We look forward to hearing from you

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.