Backend/API Engineer, Money as a Service

About the Team

Money as a Service (MaaS) oversees a diverse portfolio of core Stripe products and platforms that facilitate the global movement and management of funds for users. Teams under the MaaS umbrella include Accounts and Connect, Money Movement and Storage (MMS), Crypto, and Banking as a Service (BaaS).

What You'll Do

We're looking for Backend Engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and building out a new funds accessibility platform used by enterprises and SMBs.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Mentor engineers to help them grow
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

Who You Are

Minimum Requirements

• 2–12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
• Strong coding skills in any programming language (the interview process is language-agnostic)
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to peers' success
• Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight users

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
• Good understanding and practical knowledge of cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, etc.)