Backend/API Engineer

Stripe
UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Internship / Graduate position
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Software Debugging Cloud Services Web Services Kubernetes Graphql Software Coding Grpc Docker Programming Languages

Job description

We’re looking for Backend Engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You’ll play a key role in extending our foundational Money Management APIs and services powering our Treasury products globally. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams - from Infrastructure to Product Manager - at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs., * 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

Requirements

  • 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, * 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.)

About the company

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career., Money as a Service (MaaS) oversees a diverse portfolio of Stripe’s core platforms and services. Our Stripe Treasury suite helps users manage and move their funds with ease, providing the robust financial infrastructure and tools they need to power their businesses on a global scale.

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