Backend Engineer - API Platform

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 API is one of our most important product surface areas and is used by customers to transact over $1 trillion in payment volume yearly. Our customers want an excellent API experience, including logs for every API request and deep insight into their rate limits. Behind the scenes, the API is built by multiple Stripe product teams, who want to design and ship new endpoints with speed, quality, and confidence. API Platform builds and operates the systems that support Stripe’s APIs, webhooks and Dashboard.

What you’ll do

• Build amazing end-to-end API and developer experiences
• Build Stripe’s public API infrastructure and tooling
• Ensure our APIs are secure, reliable, and performant
• Solve product problems and build delightful API and developer experiences for our users

Who you are

• 2-5 years of professional software development experience in the domain of distributed systems and service oriented architecture, including technical leadership of projects
• Experience in architecting and designing large-scale systems that delivered meaningful impact to a business
• Skilled in working across infrastructure and product teams - building alignment, driving decision making, and communicating transparently
• Passionate about improving productivity and developer experience of internal product teams
• Eager to learn and effective at giving and receiving constructive feedback to/from peer engineers