Backend API Engineer Money as a Service
@ Stripe

Hybrid
CA$180,000
Hybrid
Full Time
Posted 15 hours ago

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform powering businesses globally, accepting payments, growing revenue, and accelerating new business opportunities. Stripe's mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

About The Organization

The Money as a Service (MaaS) organization oversees Stripe's core products such as Accounts and Connect, Money Movement and Storage, Banking-as-a-Service, and Crypto. The team ensures robust financial infrastructure for global money movement and management.

What You’ll Do

As a Backend API Engineer at Money as a Service, you will design, build, and maintain APIs, services and large-scale systems that handle billions of money movement requests. You will extend the balance management platform and develop a new funds accessibility platform for enterprises and SMBs. Your role involves debugging critical production issues, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams from Infrastructure to Product.

Responsibilities

  • Scope, design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and services.
  • Debug and solve production issues across multiple service layers.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to team technical growth.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to build new features and improve internal standards.
  • Work effectively in a distributed and hybrid team environment.

Who You Are

You have 2-12+ years of industry experience, strong coding skills in any language, and proven collaboration abilities. You thrive on autonomy and have a passion for working as a generalist across varying technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
  • Knowledge of cloud based services including gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS.

Work Arrangement

This role is hybrid: eligible for both in-office and remote work. If office-assigned, spend at least 50% of your time in the local Stripe office. Remote workers must be 35+ miles from a Stripe office.

Pay and Benefits

The annual salary range in Canada is CA$135,200 - CA$258,000. This may adjust based on location and candidate experience. Benefits include equity, bonuses, retirement plans, health benefits, and wellness stipends.

Key skills/competency

Backend, API, Engineering, Money, Services, Cloud, Debug, Mentor, Collaboration, Scalability

How to Get Hired at Stripe

🎯 Tips for Getting Hired

  • Research Stripe's culture: Understand their mission and product vision.
  • Customize your resume: Highlight API design and backend skills.
  • Emphasize relevant experience: Mention large-scale system development.
  • Prepare technical examples: Be ready to discuss troubleshooting and collaboration.

📝 Interview Preparation Advice

Technical Preparation

Review API design principles.
Practice debugging complex issues.
Study cloud platform integrations.
Brush up on container orchestration.

Behavioral Questions

Describe a challenging project collaboration.
Explain your mentorship approach.
Discuss handling high-pressure situations.
Share an example of autonomous work.

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