Backend Engineer, Developer SDKs

Stripe

5d

About The Position

In this role, you'll have an opportunity to shape the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power over 80% of the payment volume at Stripe. You will be the Golang expert on the team, representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic. Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work toward a future where we open source it to make it easier for third-party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries. Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process. Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe. Support our users reaching out to us on the open-source GitHub repositories for our SDKs. Add support for new language features in SDKs. Help lead the API design process at Stripe, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that surface through our SDKs. Collaborate, mentor, and provide support to other team members.

Requirements

• 6+ years in engineering across a wide range of products
• 3+ years of experience as a Golang software engineer
• An interest in working with multiple programming languages
• A passion for API design and developer experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience in PHP and Ruby
• Experience building libraries and/or SDKs
• Knowledge of Open API spec and protobuf

Responsibilities

• Be the Golang expert on the team, representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic
• Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work toward a future where we open source it to make it easier for third-party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries
• Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process
• Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe
• Support our users reaching out to us on the open-source GitHub repositories for our SDKs
• Add support for new language features in SDKs
• Help lead the API design process at Stripe, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that surface through our SDKs
• Collaborate, mentor, and provide support to other team members

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed