Backend / API Engineer, Treasury

Who we are

About Stripe

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 team

Stripe builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Stripe Treasury is a banking-as-a-service API that lets platforms and marketplaces embed financial services for their customers. With a single Stripe integration, users can enable their customers to hold funds, pay bills, earn interest, and manage cash flow. We have an ambitious goal to allow global businesses to run their entire financial life cycle on Stripe, and Treasury is a crucial piece of that strategy.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions
• Iterate rapidly on features, tooling, and processes as we launch the first versions of new products
• Work closely with our users and financial partners on a daily basis
• Design, build, and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems
• Engineer solutions across systems such as core money-movement infrastructure, data pipelines, banking systems, and more
• Leverage the best of Stripe’s stack or build from the ground up when prudent
• Debug production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack.  

Who you are

We’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.

Minimum requirements

• A strong technical background, including 7+ years of experience building impactful products or systems
• Think of yourself as entrepreneurial and enjoy moving quickly on new, green-field products
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise. Almost every role at Stripe collaborates with some engineers, from Sales and Support in sharing feedback from our customers, to Legal and Accounting in supporting our systems for tracking money movement and reporting around the world.