Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Stripe · Dublin · 8612 Security Infrastructure · listed April 7, 2025

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The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
6+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
7
Length
733 words

In the posting’s own words

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What it asks for · 7

  • 6+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
  • Ability to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms
  • Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
  • Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Also a plus

  • Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
  • Experience leading projects
  • Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

What the job covers

  • Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure
  • Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
  • Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe
  • Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems2×
Product & design
  • Roadmap

Words the posting leans on

  • experience6×
  • requirements4×
  • users4×
  • end3×
  • external3×
  • internal3×
  • language3×
  • software3×
  • algorithms2×
  • build2×
  • building2×
  • customer2×
  • distributed systems2×
  • meet2×
  • minimum requirements2×
  • preferred qualifications2×

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