Stripe
Backend Engineer, Payments & Risk
Toronto, Canada · Senior
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About the role
- 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.
- Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages.
Responsibilities
- You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike.
- Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams - from Infrastructure to Product - at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.
- Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Requirements
- 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
- Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
- 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.
- We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)
Benefits
- The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Company info
- 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 Organization
- Payments and Risk Sub-orgs within Payments and Risk: Link and OCS, Payments Acceptance, Risk
- Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.
- Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.
- The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently.
- This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments.
- Optimized Checkout and Link teams work to create best-in-class checkout experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and drive merchant conversion rates.
- The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding Stripe's brand and financial stability.
- Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc.
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