Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk jobs in United States
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Stripe · 1 day ago

Backend Engineer/API, Payments and Risk

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$190K/yr - $286K/yr
date2+ years exp

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. They are seeking Backend engineers to manage money at a global scale by building ergonomic APIs and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

FinanceFinTechMobile PaymentsSaaS
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Mentor engineers to help them grow
Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

Qualification

Software engineering experienceCoding skillsCloud servicesFinancial tracking systemsAutonomyGeneralist across technologiesCollaboration skillsProblem-solving

Required

2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
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

Preferred

Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)

Benefits

Equity
Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
401(k) plan
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Wellness stipends

Company

Stripe

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Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
dateFounded in 2010
location
South San Francisco, California, USA
people-size5001-10000 employees
web-link
https://stripe.com

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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Trends of Total Sponsorships
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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