Stripe
Backend Engineer, Link
NYC, Sea, SF, Tor +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- NYC, Sea, SF, Tor
US - Experience
- 2–10+ years of industry software engineering experience; internships and co-ops do not count.
About the job
Build and scale Link payment products and backend infrastructure, resolve production issues, and collaborate across Stripe to improve user experiences and engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Design and build Stripe products for customers and the company’s growth.
- Debug and resolve critical production issues across services and the stack.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, improve engineering standards and tools, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 2–10+ years of industry software engineering experience, excluding internships and co-ops.
- Strong coding skills in any programming language.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to contribute across workstreams.
- Ability to work autonomously with responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset; interest in backend work across varying technologies and stacks.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
- Practical understanding of cloud-based services; experience with or enthusiasm for building with AI and agentic workflows.
AI focus
Preferred experience or enthusiasm for building with AI and agentic workflows.
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