Backend Engineer – Web Presence and Platform Infrastructure
Company | Stripe |
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Location | Canada |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | |
Experience Level | Mid 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