• Strong technical background, including 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer, with an affinity for building scalable backend infrastructure
• Experience delivering, extending, and maintaining large scale distributed systems
• Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
• Ability to stitch together many different services together even if you have not worked with them before
• Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and having a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable
• The skills to build holistically – from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact
• Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from colleagues at all levels
• Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers as their technical leader

Desirable

• We are responsible for building Organizations, which allows merchants to effectively and centrally manage their businesses across multiple Stripe accounts. As Stripe continues to grow its suite of product offerings beyond payments, Organizations will unlock a new phase of growth for Stripe
• We will do this by enabling our platforms and businesses to model their complex businesses and distribute all of Stripe’s products to their end users
• As a backend engineer, you will design and build platforms & services that are configurable and scalable around the globe. You will partner with many functions at Stripe, with the opportunity to both work on infrastructure/platform systems, as well as produce direct user-facing business impact
• Organizations is one of Stripe’s biggest bets. You will be joining a team with an ambitious and exciting goal at an early stage, with several opportunities to solve complex engineering problems at scale. If this sounds exciting, we’d love to speak with you
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
• Build and launch new capabilities and products that bring significant value to customers
• Uphold our high engineering standards, and elevate quality and engineering efficiency within our many codebases and processes
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations
• Debug production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack