Backend Engineer, Reconciliation Platform - Stripe

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Payins organization builds products and platforms to help users accept payments from customers, including the APIs for configuring and processing payments, and Cards, our highest volume and most complex method for accepting payments.

The Reconciliation Platform team is Stripe’s internal reconciliation team. Reconciliation is responsible for producing accurate, operable, timely, detailed datasets about the post-clearing lifecycles of all the card transactions Stripe processes, handling 100s of billions of dollars in payments each year.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Scope, design and implement highly performant products that operate on large scale financial data.
• Apply a detail-oriented mindset to dissect information, analyze data, and detect patterns that lead to cost savings.
• Design, build, and maintain platform APIs, services, dashboards, and user interfaces to efficiently add, monitor and maintain cost-efficient processing flows.
• Help debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Mentor engineers earlier in their technical careers to help them grow.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• A strong technical background, including 3+ years of software engineering or a similar experience.
• Familiarity with the full life cycle of software development, from design and implementation to testing and deployment.
• Strong coding skills for building high performance services.
• Strong analytical capability especially in modeling complex business flows and turning the business requirements into programmatic artifacts such as data models, algorithms, and API designs.
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Sales and Support to better understand our customers’ needs, Legal and Accounting to understand how global policies influence our money-moving infrastructure, etc.

Preferred qualifications

•  Prior knowledge in financial technology space, particularly in payment processing

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