Backend Engineer, Core Technology
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Job description
About the Position
Backend Engineer, Core Technology
US-Remote, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco
About the Role
At Stripe, we are a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the Team
Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe's systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe's people. You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including:
- Core Infrastructure: Building the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale.
- Developer Infrastructure: Ensuring Stripe's engineers have a reliable, fast, and easy-to-use inner dev loop.
- Data Infrastructure: Offering data serving infrastructure spanning across data warehouse analytics, streaming analytics, and search capabilities.
- Admin Platform: Empowering Stripes to quickly build secure and delightful internal products.
- Service Platform: Enabling engineering teams at Stripe to easily write and ship useful services.
- Developer Productivity AI: Doubling Stripe's engineering velocity through effective use of LLMs.
Responsibilities
- Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
- Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe
- Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above
- Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.)
- 2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms
- Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems
- Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
- Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
- Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems
- Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
- Collaborative and inclusive culture
- Professional growth and development opportunities
About the Company
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 we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
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