Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform
Stripe · Toronto, NY, SEA, SF
Posted about 2 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 66 days Stripe's roles stay open a median of 66 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 3% of Stripe's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Stripe
- high 491 stale, 52 reposted of 633 open
- Hiring momentum
- 892 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-08
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Stripe's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Stripe.
About this role
As a Backend Engineer focused on Developer SDKs at Stripe, you will shape the developer experience for SDKs that handle a significant portion of payment volume. Your responsibilities will include acting as a Golang expert, improving the code generation framework using Node.js, collaborating with various teams to enhance API releases, and mentoring team members. You will also engage with the developer community through open-source GitHub repositories and guide API design processes.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Stripe as an employer.
What you need
- 6+ years in engineering across a wide range of products
- 3+ years of experience as a Golang software engineer
- An interest in working with multiple programming languages
- A passion for API design and developer experience
Nice to have
- Experience in PHP and Ruby
- Experience building libraries and/or SDKs
- Knowledge of Open API spec and protobuf
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Focus on open-source SDKs may imply a collaborative but potentially less structured environment
- Role requires strong expertise in Golang and Node.js, which may limit exposure to other technologies
Summarised from Stripe's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Stripe on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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