Backend Engineer, Core TechnologyActive

The opportunity

Note: if you are an intern, new grad, or staff applicant, please do not apply using this link and visit our jobs page for those specific postings.

What you'll do

  • 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

What they're looking for

  • + years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
  • Ability 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 coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages: can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
  • Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and: contribute to your peers’ success
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and: think of yourself as entrepreneurial
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to: solve problems and delight both internal and external users
  • Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems