Backend / API Engineer, EMEA Wallets

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

Stripe’s payments products have helped to accelerate many of the world’s most innovative companies, and the Payments Methods team owns one of Stripe’s most critical workflows, a platform that processes billions of dollars in payments annually. The EMEA wallets team builds and maintains local payment methods relevant to Stripe’s merchants and their buyers (like PayPal, Pay by bank etc). The team is focused on increasing the coverage and adoption of locally preferred payment methods for all our users, with a focus in EMEA. 

What you’ll do

Backend Engineers at Stripe are comfortable working on new products under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations. 

Responsibilities

• Scope and lead technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale
• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
• Work with our partners to launch new markets, payment methods, and capabilities
• Align our technical decisions with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
• Collaborate across the company to leverage existing infrastructure as well as build bespoke solutions where needed to solve problems end-to-end

Minimum requirements

• Based or willing to relocate to Dublin. Subject to eligibility criteria, we may be able to offer relocation support, please discuss this with your recruiter if the role isn’t local to you. 
• Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
• A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
• Software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment
• Experience writing high quality code in a major programming language and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar
• Ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
• Ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in complex environments
• Financial experience is a plus but not at all a requirement