Backend / API Engineer, Funding

Who we areAbout 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 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

The Funding team builds products which allow our users to move money into Stripe. After credit cards, we’re the number one way money moves into Stripe and are responsible for processing billions of dollars around the world; operating mission-critical services.

Our products are foundational to Stripe and enable Payments, Issuing and Connect users to top-up their Stripe balances. We support some of the largest businesses running on Stripe today and are building for the next generation. We’re shipping new APIs and products to power the future of Stripe, expanding our existing capabilities to new markets and re-engineering for increased scale and stability.

Our team collaborates across North America and the UK with primary locations in Toronto and London.

What you’ll do

As a backend engineer, you’ll design, build and operate APIs, features and services. You’ll work within a team of engineers and collaborate with cross-functional partners to scope new products, support users and ship high quality products.

Responsibilities

• Scope and lead technical projects, laying the groundwork for our products to iteratively evolve and scale
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
• Support our users and keep our systems reliable and performant
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
• Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Produce high level internal and external documentation
• Mentor and provide support to other team members

Who you are

We’re looking for software engineers with experience building APIs and scalable distributed systems in service based architecture.

Minimum requirements

• Have a strong technical background, with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and APIs
• A passion for API design and amazing product experiences
• Experience building and operating highly reliable services
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• Take pride ownership and driving projects to business impact
• Solve problems autonomously; ability to research a technical or product domain and apply your knowledge when designing and scoping projects