Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Role overview

Backend Engineer in Stripe Infrastructure, working on core systems and developer/data/service platform capabilities. You’ll design, build, test, and ship production code while improving reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Build a strong customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using Stripe infrastructure
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
• Deliver value through close collaboration with multiple customers and stakeholders
• Debug production issues across services and multiple layers of the stack

Requirements

• Strong software engineering skills and passion for one of the infrastructure areas (core, developer, data, admin/service platform, or developer productivity/AI)
• Ability to write high-quality code in languages such as Go, Java, or C/C++
• 2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
• Experience building or contributing to large-scale distributed systems
• Strong collaboration skills across workstreams
• Customer-obsessed mindset

Nice to have

• Preferred qualifications are described as a bonus (not required), but specific items are not included in the provided text.