Backend Engineer, Developer SDKs

In this role, you’ll have an opportunity to shape the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power over 80% of the payment volume at Stripe.

• Be the Golang expert on the team, representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic
• Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work toward a future where we open source it to make it easier for third-party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries
• Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process
• Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe
• Support our users reaching out to us on the open-source GitHub repositories for our SDKs
• Add support for new language features in SDKs
• Help lead the API design process at Stripe, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that surface through our SDKs
• Collaborate, mentor, and provide support to other team members

• 6+ years in engineering across a wide range of products
• 3+ years of experience as a Golang software engineer
• An interest in working with multiple programming languages
• A passion for API design and developer experience, * Experience in PHP and Ruby
• Experience building libraries and/or SDKs
• Knowledge of Open API spec and protobuf

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.