Backend Engineer, Internationalisation

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Who We Are

About Stripe

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 put the global economy within everyone’s reach.

About the Team

The Internationalisation team builds the platform that helps Stripe products work naturally across languages and markets. The team creates and operates infrastructure that enables Stripe teams to localize product interfaces, services, and written communications while delivering consistent, high-quality experiences to users around the world.

The team works closely with Stripe’s Localization team, language experts, and product and service engineering teams integrating localized content. Together, they combine engineering, automation, and linguistic expertise to help Stripe build products that feel native to each market.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internationalisation infrastructure supporting diverse content surfaces, including backend services, product interfaces, and written communications.
• Integrate localization into Stripe’s software-development and content-production workflows, enabling teams to ship translated experiences continuously and safely.
• Build and maintain integrations with translation-management systems, LLM services, and external localization providers.
• Evolve production LLM capabilities to improve translation quality, market relevance, turnaround time, and operational efficiency.
• Develop automated quality checks and human-evaluation workflows that combine LLM-driven automation with expert linguistic judgment.
• Maintain reliability through effective testing, monitoring, alerting, and operational processes.
• Own ambiguous, high-impact initiatives end to end, from research and experimentation through implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Strong coding skills in any programming language; the interview process is language agnostic.
• Experience developing reliable infrastructure, platform, or backend-service solutions.
• Strong product judgment and a commitment to building high-quality user and developer experiences.
• Ability to own ambiguous work end to end and make progress through research, experimentation, and iteration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating production LLM or machine-learning systems.
• Experience evaluating LLM output or combining automated systems with expert human review.
• Familiarity with internationalisation, localization, translation, or content-management workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, developer platforms, or workflow infrastructure.
• Backend engineering experience building services using Java, Ruby, or Go.
• Experience building internal platforms that ultimately support customer-facing products.