The Backend Engineer role at Privy focuses on building and maintaining backend systems that support wallets, identity, and on-chain infrastructure at scale. The team emphasizes high urgency and a security mindset, leveraging technologies like Node, React, and AWS. Engineers are expected to take on significant technical initiatives and contribute to the overall technical direction of the product. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex problems while collaborating with developers and other teams within Stripe.

• 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 infrastructure configuration.
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation.

• Design and build the backend systems that power wallets, identity, and on-chain infrastructure at scale.
• Create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to build faster.
• Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems.
• Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform.
• Help shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work.