Backend Engineer – Core Technology

Stripe

Backend Engineer developing core technology infrastructure for Stripe's payment systems. Designing, building, testing, and shipping code to improve customer experience.

Posted 3/31/2026full-timeRemote • California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoJava

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoJavaCC++software engineeringalgorithmsdata structuresdistributed systemsdebuggingproduction issues

Soft Skills

collaborationcustomer obsessioncommunicationautonomyresponsibilityentrepreneurial mindset