Backend Engineer, Payments

Stripe · Toronto, Canada Remote · 8217 Risk Engineering · listed April 29, 2025

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The shape of it

Seniority

Mid level

Experience asked

2–12 years

Where

Hybrid

Requirements listed

Length

576 words

In the posting’s own words

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What it asks for · 5

2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
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 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.)

What the job covers

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, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes

Frameworks

GraphQL
gRPC

Product & design

Accessibility

Ways of working

Cross-functional

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