Hiring: Backend Engineer, Core Technology Company: Stripe Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 09:06:03 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Apache, C, C++, Data Pipeline, Data Warehouse, Elasticsearch, Hive, Java, LLM, Machine Learning, Microservices, Stripe About the job Experience: •12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms Required Skills: •You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship great code every day. •Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure •Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization •Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe •Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack Qualifications: •Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above •Demonstrated capacity to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.) •2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms •Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems •Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success •Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome •Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial •Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external •Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production •This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office). Compensation: •$142,600 - $259,600 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!