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# Backend Engineer, Privy

- **Company:** Stripe, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $224,000.0 - $336,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** System Configuration, Programming Tools, Open Source Technology, Backend, Database Migration, Stripe, Api Design
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_0a39145f635bc26e02c012d836e6429d

## About the Role

* 8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
 * An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
 * Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
 * An ability to thrive in a fast paced environment.
 * A growth mindset and a constant curiosity and fearlessness to dive into the unknown.
 * An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast.
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation., * Strong preference for experience in an API-based business and in payments, fintech, or crypto.
 * Written open-source developer tooling
 * Published about your work (open source code, internal or external presentations, blog posts, etc.)
 * Past experience working in authentication or security

## Description

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.