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Stripe · 1 day ago

Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, aiming to increase the GDP of the internet. The Backend Engineer will work on projects that involve designing, building, testing, and shipping code, focusing on enhancing customer experience and collaborating with various stakeholders.

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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

Qualification

Software engineeringDistributed systemsAlgorithmsProgramming languagesCustomer obsessionAutonomyCollaboration skills

Required

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 structure 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
Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Preferred

Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

Company

Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.

H1B Sponsorship

Stripe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (272)
2024 (283)
2023 (141)
2022 (379)
2021 (276)
2020 (111)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$9.44B
Key Investors
Tiger Global ManagementThrive CapitalFounders Fund
2025-02-27Secondary Market
2024-04-12Secondary Market· $694.16M
2024-03-01Series Unknown

Leadership Team

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Steffan Tomlinson
CFO
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Aitor Guevara
Head Of Engineering
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