Backend/API Engineer, User Billing

Stripe - South San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Senior

South San Francisco, CA

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About the position

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the User Billing team at Stripe, you will be responsible for designing and building scalable platforms, tooling, and system solutions that support complex integrations and user-facing business impacts. This role involves collaborating with various functions within the company to enhance engineering standards and processes while ensuring the reliability of systems critical to Stripe's operations.

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

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data modeling, API design, distributed systems and data pipeline development
• Strong ability to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry
• High standards for working with production systems
• Experience in completing projects involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
• Ability to think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high quality code, primarily in Java, Scala, and Ruby

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working in a collaborative environment with diverse stakeholders
• Interest in learning new technologies and systems