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# Staff Backend Engineer - UI Platform

- **Company:** Stripe
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Systems, Distributed Systems, Mobile Application Software, Software Engineering, Backend, Stripe, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs
- **Published:** August 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobleads.com/es/job/e4f4dfbbd6d254078f077c6f9a69185ec

## About the Role

* This is a staff-level role, which typically means 10+ years of experience building complex, reliable, scalable APIs or distributed systems
 * Track record of leading the technical design and delivery of large projects across multiple engineering teams
 * Experience setting technical direction and translating strategy into an executable roadmap
 * Demonstrated ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs with engineering, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership, * Experience building backend-for-frontend systems or frontend platform services
 * Experience working on developer platforms, design systems, or UI infrastructure
 * Experience using agentic development workflows to improve engineering productivity
 * Experience with feature flagging, experimentation, telemetry, or analytics systems

## Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on the UI Platform team, you'll help shape the technical direction for the services that support Stripe's user interfaces. You'll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, working with backend engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver platform capabilities that help Stripe build consistent, reliable user experiences., * Define a cross-team technical strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for the backend services that power Stripe's merchant-facing experiences

 * Lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services that give product teams a consistent foundation for building reliable user experiences across the Dashboard, mobile applications, and other interfaces
 * Build reusable platform capabilities that help product teams develop, operate, and improve their products with confidence
 * Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to connect the design system, software development kits, APIs, and backend services
 * Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship, raising the quality and effectiveness of the team's work


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