Staff Backend Engineer - API PlatformPosted today

The opportunity

Stripe is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world, and we’re scaling in every dimension: users, revenue, people, technology, processes, and more. The team is building the systems that support Stripe’s API.

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and: support to ensure their success. Our staff engineers frequently find clever solutions to make the impossible possible, and to supercharge those around them to hit aggressive deadlines.

  • Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones: toward a cohesive engineering vision.

  • Own highly impactful projects end-to-end, working across teams,: organizations, and stakeholders to support the Infrastructure’s key engineering initiatives.

  • Interact directly with users to understand key pain points, and apply your: understanding to infrastructure’s hardest problems.

  • Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design,: vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes) for team members.

  • Ensure our APIs are secure, reliable, and performant for our partners in: product, while strategically solving for their problems.

What they're looking for

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).
  • Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (webhook: delivery, databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc).
  • Generally enjoys an in-office culture.
  • Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs.
  • Experience building serverless platforms.