The Backend Engineer for Payments and Risk at Stripe will focus on developing and maintaining APIs and services that facilitate efficient payment processing and risk management. This role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance user experiences and ensure financial stability. The engineer will work on extending the balance management platform and building a new funds accessibility platform. The position offers a unique opportunity to impact global money management while working in a dynamic environment.

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience, excluding internships or co-ops.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Strong collaboration skills to work across workstreams and contribute to peers' success.
• Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility.
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks.

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems for handling billions of money movement requests.
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Mentor and support the growth of other engineers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to build new features at large scale while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.