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Backend Engineer – Web Presence and Platform Infrastructure

Backend Engineer – Web Presence and Platform Infrastructure

CompanyStripe
LocationCanada
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • Strong technical background, including 2 – 5 years of experience as a backend engineer, with an affinity for building scalable backend infrastructure.
  • Experience delivering, extending, and maintaining large scale distributed systems.
  • Empathetic, collaborative, and user-first mindset in everything you build
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
  • Ability to stitch together many different services together even if you have not worked with them before
  • Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and having a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable
  • The skills to build holistically – from specs and documentation to implementation, testing, deployment, and measuring impact
  • Ability to work well cross-functionally and earn trust from colleagues at all levels
  • Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers as their technical leader

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems
  • Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
  • Build and launch new capabilities and products that bring significant value to customers
  • Uphold our high engineering standards, and elevate quality and engineering efficiency within our many codebases and processes
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization including dependency engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and operations
  • Debug production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Fellow engineers feel they are able to learn from you, and you care deeply about mentoring others
  • Propensity to ask questions, assume good intentions, and defaulting to transparency
  • You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your team