Remote Backend/API Engineer Job in United States Stripe

Who you are

• Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above.
• 2+ years of professional hands-on experience in designing and developing large-scale infrastructure or 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

Desirables

• Ability to write high-quality code.
• Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems.
• Focuses on the needs of internal and external users.
• Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

What the job involves

• You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day.
• You will build a great customer experience for internal teams and Stripe users using our infrastructure.
• You will scope and lead medium to large technical projects that align with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives.
• You will develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps, make effective technical trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with customers and cross-functional stakeholders across Stripe.
• Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack.