Stripe
Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk
Found: November 26, 2025
This role is based in South San Francisco, CA.
Compensation:
$155,700 - $281,300/year
What you'll do:
Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs and services for money movement, debug production issues, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
- Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
- Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Mentor engineers to help them grow
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale
- Maintain open communication and strong connections with colleagues in a distributed team
Requirements:
- 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience
- Strong coding skills in any programming language
- Collaboration skills and ability to work autonomously
- Interest in working across varying technologies and stacks
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Knowledge of cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS)