Backend/API Engineer, User Billing - San Francisco California

Company: Stripe
Location: San Francisco, California
Posted On: 01/30/2025

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies-from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups-use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.About the teamThe User Billing team owns an unusual mix of platform, infrastructure, and product problems. We are looking for people with a strong background or interest in working across these domains to build successful platforms and systems. You're comfortable dealing with many moving pieces, you work effectively across teams and functions, and you have exquisite attention to detail. You're looking forward to learning new technologies, systems, and problem domains. If this resonates with you, do apply!What you'll doAs a senior backend engineer, you will design and build platforms, tooling, and system solutions that are configurable and scalable around the globe. You will partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on infrastructure/platform systems, as well as produce direct user-facing business impact.Responsibilities

• Design APIs and data models that facilitate complex system integrations.
• Design, build and maintain large-scale production services and data pipelines.
• Work on systems critical to Stripe's current and future operation, with responsibility for billions of dollars of payments volume.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company including engineering, product, operations, finance, data science, accounting, sales, and operations.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.Who you areWe're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
  • 5+ years of experience in data modeling, API design, distributed systems and data pipeline development.
  • Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry.
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
  • Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
  • Think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high quality code. We work mostly in Java, Scala, and Ruby.However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.You're not expected to have expertise across all of these areas! We have wonderful team members who focus on our customers' needs and build amazing user experiences, and didn't work on APIs before joining Stripe.This role is available either in an office or a remote location.The annual US base salary range for this role is $179,400 - $269,200. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and location.At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out-and set you apart-especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.
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