Full Stack Engineer, Bridge

at Stripe

📍 New York City, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States

USD 190,400-285,600 per year

MIDDLE

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

API @ 3 Blockchain @ 3 Communication @ 3 Distributed Systems @ 3 Payments @ 3 SQL @ 6 Security @ 6

Details

Bridge is building a payments platform powered by stablecoins to make global money movement simpler, faster, and more accessible. The platform enables businesses to send and receive funds across borders, provide customers with access to dollars through virtual accounts, and disburse USD globally.

Responsibilities

Build and ship end-to-end product experiences across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and data systems.
Design reliable, performant, and intuitive interfaces for developers, operations teams, and end users interacting with Bridge products.
Develop and maintain the APIs and backend systems that power global payments, virtual accounts, and payouts.
Own projects from technical design through launch and iteration, often operating with substantial autonomy and without dedicated product management support.
Debug and resolve production issues across the stack, focusing on reliability, performance, and customer impact.
Make thoughtful tradeoffs among business priorities, user experience, speed of execution, and long-term technical quality.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

6+ years of professional software engineering experience. Candidates across a range of seniority, from experienced individual contributors through senior technical leaders, are encouraged to apply.
Experience building and shipping production software across frontend and backend systems.
Strong experience with backend services, SQL databases, and API design.
Experience building polished, maintainable web applications and collaborating closely on product and user-experience decisions.
Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to lead technical projects and influence product direction.
Ability to write modular, well-tested, maintainable code while remaining pragmatic and moving quickly.
Comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and working in unfamiliar problem spaces.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear technical documentation.
Curiosity, sound judgment, and a commitment to continuously improving the product for partners and end users.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building developer-facing API products or platforms.
Experience with financial infrastructure, payments, money movement, or other regulated products.
Interest in or experience with stablecoins, blockchain systems, or distributed systems.
Experience designing systems that require high reliability, strong security controls, and careful operational discipline.