Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, enabling millions of companies to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Its mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. The Money as a Service (MaaS) organization oversees a diverse portfolio of Stripe's core products and platforms, facilitating the global movement and management of funds for users. This includes sub-orgs like Accounts and Connect, Money Movement and Storage (MMS), Stripe’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS), and Crypto, all working to provide robust financial infrastructure.

### Responsibilities - Scoping, designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests. - Debugging and solving critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack. - Mentoring engineers. - Collaborating with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes. - Collaborating effectively in a distributed and hybrid team.

### Qualifications - 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops). - Strong coding skills in any programming language. - Strong collaboration skills. - Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and entrepreneurial thinking. - Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users. - Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems (Preferred). - Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS) (Preferred).

Stripe is a financial services and SaaS company that provides payment-processing software, APIs for e-commerce and mobile apps, and tools to accept payments, manage billing, and handle money movement for businesses from startups to public companies.[1][2][4]