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# Backend Engineer, Developer SDKs

- **Company:** Stripe, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Code Generation, Github, Protocol Buffers, Node.Js, Open Source Technology, Ruby, Stripe, Api Design, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/backend-engineer-developer-sdks-stripe-8602611

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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