Staff Backend Engineer - API Platform

at Stripe

📍 Dublin, Ireland

EUR 132,000-198,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

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. Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

About the Team

The team builds the systems that support Stripe’s API. It focuses on distilling complexity across a breadth of problems while maintaining reliable, secure, efficient infrastructure and a high-quality platform experience. The team contributes to the latency, reliability, and efficiency of Stripe’s API.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support.
Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps and deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision.
Own highly impactful projects end-to-end across teams, organizations, and stakeholders.
Interact directly with users to understand key pain points and apply that understanding to infrastructure problems.
Provide hands-on technical leadership, including architecture and design, vision and direction, requirements setting, and incident response processes.
Ensure APIs are secure, reliable, and performant for product partners.
Build and ship end-to-end APIs.

Requirements

10+ years of technical experience, ideally in infrastructure or platform engineering.
5+ years in a senior-level strategic technical leadership role.
Experience leading engineering teams building APIs and working on infrastructure efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
Hands-on experience working across teams and stakeholders to build infrastructure and products for internal customers.
Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth and shipping code at an accelerated pace.
Ability to move between high-level discussions and detailed coding.
High level of autonomy and responsibility.
Clear and persuasive written and in-person communication skills.
Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset.
Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people and contribute to psychological safety.
Proficiency in at least one of Java, Ruby, Python, or Go.
Comfort participating in rigorous incident response processes and on-call rotations.
Ability to work across time zones, particularly Pacific Standard Time.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences, including leadership, users, and the company.
Experience with infrastructure platforms such as webhook delivery, databases, logging, event streams, metrics, and caching.
Interest in an in-office culture.
Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering organizations.
Experience building serverless platforms.