Backend Engineer, Developer SDKs

Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Developer SDKs team owns open-source SDKs that reflect the Stripe API in seven programming languages, as well as an in-house code generation framework used for SDKs, documentation code snippets, and Stripe Shell commands.

The team focuses on delivering a world-class developer experience, influencing API authoring and releases, and collaborating with the Stripe community on SDK maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Golang expert on the team, representing the Golang community and ensuring idiomatic developer experiences.
• Use Node.js expertise to improve the code generation framework and work toward open-sourcing it for third-party Stripe SDK owners.
• Collaborate with Stripe teams to release APIs in the SDKs and improve release-process efficiency.
• Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe.
• Support users reaching out through the open-source GitHub repositories for the SDKs.
• Add support for new language features in SDKs.
• Help lead the API design process by guiding product teams toward powerful and intuitive abstractions.
• Collaborate with, mentor, and support other team members.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• 6+ years of engineering experience across a wide range of products.
• 3+ years of experience as a Golang software engineer.
• Interest in working with multiple programming languages.
• Passion for API design and developer experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PHP and Ruby.
• Experience building libraries and/or SDKs.
• Knowledge of the OpenAPI specification and Protocol Buffers (protobuf).