[Remote] Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, seeking a Backend Engineer to work on critical business areas including Core Infrastructure and Developer Productivity AI. The role involves designing, building, testing, and shipping code while collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance customer experience and resolve production issues.ResponsibilitiesBuild a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructureParticipate in roadmap planning and prioritizationDeliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across StripeDebug production issues across services and several levels of the stackSkillsStrong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas aboveAbility 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 structure and algorithmsHands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systemsStrong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' successCustomer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcomeHave the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurialExperience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systemsFocuses on the needs of our users, both internal and externalHold yourself and others to a high bar when working with productionCompany OverviewStripe is a financial technology company that provides online payment processing and payment infrastructure for businesses. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://stripe.com.Company H1B SponsorshipStripe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 40 in 2026, 272 in 2025, 283 in 2024, 141 in 2023, 379 in 2022, 276 in 2021, 111 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.