The Backend Engineer role at Stripe focuses on building and maintaining the core technology infrastructure that supports various business areas, including core, developer, data, and service platforms. The team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of Stripe's systems while enhancing developer productivity. Engineers will work on diverse projects that require collaboration across multiple teams and stakeholders. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to critical systems that impact Stripe's operations and customer experience.

• Strong software engineering skills and a passion for infrastructure-related areas.
• Ability to write high-quality code in programming languages such as Go, Java, or C/C++.
• 2 to 12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience.
• Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration skills to work across workstreams and contribute to peers' success.
• Customer obsession with the ability to articulate and represent customer experience.

• Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure.
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe.
• Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack.