Backend Engineer – Core Technology

Stripe

full-time

Posted on: 3/31/2026

Location Type: Remote

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About the role

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

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoJavaCC++software engineeringalgorithmsdata structuresdistributed systemsdebuggingproduction issues

Soft Skills

collaborationcustomer obsessioncommunicationautonomyresponsibilityentrepreneurial mindset