Backend / API Engineer, User Data Platform

The job overview for this role is to be a part of the User Data Platform team at Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The team is responsible for building the next generation of systems that will serve users' needs to store custom data with Stripe objects. This includes working on multiple product offerings, addressing user requirements, and reducing risk and operating expenses associated with existing solutions. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to the future direction of storing custom data with Stripe objects and make a significant impact on the global economy.

Solve product problems and build delightful API and developer experiences for our users

Work on multiple product offerings from the early stages of user research and product shaping

Address significant existing scale and interesting technical challenges

Cut across many stakeholders and business lines

Help power the future direction of storing custom data with Stripe objects

• Solve product problems and build delightful API and developer experiences for users
• Turn ambiguous problems into concrete products, from proposal to launch
• Build software services and platforms that impact every Stripe user
• Ensure reliability, scalability, security, and extensibility of platforms
• Shape future-proof interfaces that are easy to build against
• Help drive sound technical decision making and lead technical conversations with other teams

• Opportunity to work on concrete products that solve real problems for users
• Impact every Stripe user, whether they are end users, developers, or partners
• Reliable, scalable, secure, and extensible platforms
• Future-proof interfaces that are easy to build against
• Technical decision making and leading technical conversations with other teams
• Debugging production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Minimum requirements for the role, with preferred qualifications as a bonus
• 5+ years of industry experience building high-quality code and infrastructure
• Experience shipping high-quality products from start to finish
• Passion for API design and developer experiences
• Collaboration with designers, product managers, and other Stripe product teams
• Thriving in a collaborative environment with different functions and stakeholders
• Working closely with developers who depend on your libraries
• Attention to detail, especially around performance, accessibility, reliability, and security.