[Remote] Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, aiming to increase the GDP of the internet. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes, focusing on building a great customer experience and collaborating with various stakeholders.


Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

  • Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above
  • Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc)
  • 2-12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structure and algorithms
  • Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems
  • Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
  • Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
  • Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
  • Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
  • 401(k) plan
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Wellness stipends

Company Overview

  • Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://stripe.com.

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