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Stripe

Senior Backend Engineer, Payments

Remote, United States · $220k-$280k

GoPostgresPaymentsDistributed systems
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Role summary

Stripe is looking for a senior backend engineer to lead payments processing infrastructure. You will work across Go and Ruby, own systems that move billions of dollars per day, and partner with risk, ledger, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead backend design for high-throughput payment flows.
  • Own reliability, observability, and incident response for payment services.
  • Mentor engineers on distributed systems and data modeling.

Qualifications

  • Senior backend engineering experience with payments or financial systems.
  • Strong Postgres and distributed systems experience.
  • Production experience with Go, Ruby, or comparable backend stacks.

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