Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk

at Stripe

📍 Toronto, Canada
📍 Seattle, United States

USD 190,400-285,600 per year

MIDDLE

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

Who We Are

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

About the Organization

The Payments organization develops products and platforms that enable users to accept payments efficiently. This includes payment-processing APIs, regional and non-card payment options, and in-person payments capabilities. The Optimized Checkout and Link teams create checkout experiences that improve customer satisfaction and merchant conversion rates. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while safeguarding Stripe's brand and financial stability.

Exact team matching for one of the Link and OCS, Payments Acceptance, or Risk sub-teams will begin during the final stages. Candidates may also be considered for different organizations based on their experience and location.

Responsibilities

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 and 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.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

2+ years of industry software engineering experience, excluding internships and co-ops.
Strong coding skills in any programming language; the interview process is language agnostic.
Strong collaboration skills, including the ability to work across workstreams and contribute to peers' success.
Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight internal and external users.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
Good understanding and practical knowledge of cloud-based services, such as gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS.