Backend / API Engineer, Risk
Apply NowCompany: Stripe
Location: San Francisco, CA 94112
Description:
Who we are
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.
About the team
Stripe's mission is to build the economic infrastructure for the internet. Data Migrations Engineering helps users grow their business by providing a consistent, great experience when migrating sensitive data onto Stripe or between Stripe accounts.
The Risk group consists of backend and full stack engineers who tackle this problem through creative new product ideas and scalable infrastructure. We are undertaking several new efforts, where you can have an outsized impact on the architecture, implementation, and design choices behind these systems.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
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.
About the team
Stripe's mission is to build the economic infrastructure for the internet. Data Migrations Engineering helps users grow their business by providing a consistent, great experience when migrating sensitive data onto Stripe or between Stripe accounts.
The Risk group consists of backend and full stack engineers who tackle this problem through creative new product ideas and scalable infrastructure. We are undertaking several new efforts, where you can have an outsized impact on the architecture, implementation, and design choices behind these systems.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems
- Collaborate with other engineers across Stripe, as well as stakeholders across product, design, legal, and operations
- Build easy to use systems that enable safe migrations of data
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 2+ years of industry experience shipping high-quality products
- Enjoy and have experience building scalable backend infrastructure
- Strong analytical capability and ability to quickly ramp up in a new area, and tackle ambiguous problems
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
- Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact
- Thrive in a collaborative environment