Software Engineer, Backend

About this role

<h2><strong>Who we are </strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p>Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.</p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Develop scalable computer systems that manage a large volume of information and use them to fulfill business goals for the company and its partners.</li> <li>Improve backend scalability and performance by integrating lightweight backend framework, overhauling APIs and optimizing database systems.</li> <li>Design and build tools that ingest and process signals from various sources to make them more accessible for the company’s partner teams.&nbsp;</li> <li>Design and implement logging and data visualization system for backend APIs.</li> <li>Diagnose and resolve software issues reported from production, automated testing, QA testing and customers.</li> <li>Design and implement scalable and reliable automated testing suites to reduce manual Quality Assurance tasks.</li> <li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams and streamlined software development and deployment processes with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3> <p>Must have a Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus six (6) years of software development experience.</p> <p>Must also have four (4) years of experience in each of the following:</p> <ul> <li>Building software solutions in Java, C++, Python, or Ruby;</li> <li>Designing, building and maintaining scalable systems;</li> <li>Translating business needs into software requirements and designs;</li> <li>Debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack;</li> <li>Distributed systems; and</li> <li>Design and implementation of scalable high-performance RESTful microservices.</li> </ul> <p>Salary: $206,086 - $285,600/yr</p> <p>This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions / sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.</p> <p>40 hrs/week</p> <p>50% Telecommuting permitted.</p> <p>Multiple Positions Available.&nbsp;</p> <p>Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. <strong>WA58</strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">#LI-DNI </span></p>