Backend Engineer, Core Tech, Canada

What you'll do

You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship great code every day.

Responsibilities

• 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

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

• Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above
• Ability 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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems…