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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 26 days Stripe's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 3% of Stripe's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Stripe
- low 0 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
- 2026-09-17
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 Staff Backend Engineer on the UI Platform team at Stripe, you will shape the technical direction for backend services that support user interfaces. Your role will involve defining strategies, leading the design and delivery of scalable services, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a consistent user experience. You will also provide technical leadership and mentorship to enhance the team's effectiveness.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- 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
- 10+ years of experience building complex, reliable, scalable APIs or distributed systems
- Track record of leading the technical design and delivery of large projects across multiple engineering teams
- Experience setting technical direction and translating strategy into an executable roadmap
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs with engineering, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership
Nice to have
- Experience building backend-for-frontend systems or frontend platform services
- Experience working on developer platforms, design systems, or UI infrastructure
- Experience using agentic development workflows to improve engineering productivity
- Experience with feature flagging, experimentation, telemetry, or analytics systems
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role involves significant leadership and cross-team collaboration, which may require strong interpersonal skills
- Focus on backend services for user interfaces may limit exposure to other areas of software development
Summarised from Stripe's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Stripe on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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