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# Backend/API Engineer

- **Company:** Stripe
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Software Debugging, Cloud Services, Web Services, Kubernetes, Graphql, Software Coding, Grpc, Docker, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/backend-api-engineer-money-as-a-service-stripe-7425465

## About the Role

* 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.)

## 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


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