Backend / API Engineer, Accounts

The job overview for this role is to be an engineer on the team responsible for building features for Stripe's Accounts APIs and services. This includes developing foundational elements as well as higher-level APIs to ensure best-in-class reliability and performance for users. The focus is on designing, building, and maintaining robust and high-performance APIs and services, while also collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a seamless developer experience. The goal is to hide complexity from users behind simple yet powerful abstractions.

• Design, build, and maintain APIs and services
• Ensure infrastructure is extensible, scalable, reliable, and meets SLAs
• Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams
• Deliver delightful developer experiences and comprehensive interfaces
• Hide complexity from users behind simple yet powerful abstractions

• Design, build, and maintain APIs and services
• Ensure infrastructure is extensible, scalable, and reliable
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Deliver delightful developer experiences
• Hide complexity behind simple abstractions

• Opportunity to work on a financial infrastructure platform for businesses
• Chance to contribute to increasing the GDP of the internet
• Work with a diverse range of companies, from large enterprises to ambitious startups
• Opportunity to solve challenging user pain points at scale
• Build a granular, expressive framework for users' onboarding experience
• Work on foundational APIs and services that are critical to Stripe's long-term success
• Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams
• Deliver delightful developer experiences and comprehensive interfaces
• Hide complexity from users behind simple yet powerful abstractions
• Strong technical background and experience in designing and implementing large-scale APIs and services
• Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset
• Preference for simple solutions and designs
• Experience proactively seeking feedback from users and teammates
• Ability to build holistically from specs to deployment and measuring impact
• Opportunity to work on distributed systems or microservices architecture
• Passion for helping others grow and learn
• Emphasis on asking questions, assuming good intentions, and defaulting to transparency