Backend Engineer - API Platform

Posted 8 Days Ago
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Dublin
Junior
Payments • Software
The Role
As a Backend Engineer for the API Platform at Stripe, you will build and enhance API and developer experiences, develop public API infrastructure and tooling, and ensure security and performance of APIs while solving product problems.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 Team

Stripe’s API is one of our most important product surface areas and is used by customers to transact over $1 trillion in payment volume yearly. Our customers want an excellent API experience, including logs for every API request and deep insight into their rate limits. Behind the scenes, the API is built by multiple Stripe product teams, who want to design and ship new endpoints with speed, quality, and confidence. API Platform builds and operates the systems that support Stripe’s APIs, webhooks and Dashboard.

What you’ll do

  • Build amazing end-to-end API and developer experiences
  • Build Stripe’s public API infrastructure and tooling
  • Ensure our APIs are secure, reliable, and performant
  • Solve product problems and build delightful API and developer experiences for our users


Who you are

  • 2-5 years of professional software development experience in the domain of distributed systems and service oriented architecture, including technical leadership of projects
  • Experience in architecting and designing large-scale systems that delivered meaningful impact to a business
  • Skilled in working across infrastructure and product teams - building alignment, driving decision making, and communicating transparently
  • Passionate about improving productivity and developer experience of internal product teams
  • Eager to learn and effective at giving and receiving constructive feedback to/from peer engineers


Top Skills

APIs
The Company
HQ: Dublin, Dublin
5,360 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook—use the company’s software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Over the long term, Stripe aims to increase the GDP of the internet.

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