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Stripe

Backend Engineer, Core Technology

US-Remote, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jun 14, 2024

Location
US-Remote, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco
US
Experience
2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience.

About the job

Designs, builds, tests, and ships infrastructure software to support Stripe’s internal and external teams, focusing on reliable, scalable systems and developer productivity.

What you'll do

  • Build infrastructure experiences for internal and external Stripe teams.
  • Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization, collaborating with customers and stakeholders.
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.

What they ask for

  • Strong software engineering skills and ability to write high-quality code.
  • Hands-on experience building or contributing to large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong collaboration skills, customer focus, and ability to work autonomously.
  • Experience writing well-factored algorithms and using commonly used data structures and algorithms.

Nice to have

  • Experience optimizing end-to-end performance of distributed systems.
  • Focus on internal and external user needs and high production standards.

Tools

Go, Java, C/C++, Trino/Presto, Apache Pinot, Hive Metastore, ElasticSearch

AI focus

Some possible team assignments involve Developer Productivity AI, including using LLMs to improve engineering velocity and building Minions, Stripe's coding agents; AI work is not specified as a requirement for the role.

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