Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk · Stripe

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:02:58 GMT
Engineering

Stripe · US · hybrid
We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Payments and Risk team. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in extending our balance management platform and building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams – from Infrastructure to Product – at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs. Responsibilities: * 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 Requirements: * 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience * Strong coding skills in any programming language * 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