CareerPlan

Backend/API Engineer

USAFull-time2026-10-13 → 2026-11-12

Core

Backend Engineer building and maintaining APIs, services, and large-scale systems for Stripe's balance management and funds accessibility platforms.

Role type

Senior IC backend/API engineer

Builds

APIs, services, and large-scale systems for global money movement and balance management

Domain

Financial technology / Payments infrastructure

Required skills

API design, large-scale system architecture, debugging, cross-functional collaboration, autonomous problem solving, generalist engineering

Preferred skills

Financial tracking systems, cloud services (AWS), gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes

Technologies

gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

Responsibilities

Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems; Debug and solve critical production issues; Mentor engineers; Collaborate with stakeholders to build new features and improve engineering standards

Seniority

Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC