Backend Engineer, Credit Decisions

Stripe · Chicago, IL

$173kPosted pay
On-siteFully remote
Jul 24Posted
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Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. 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.

Responsibilities

  • Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end.
  • Collaborate with engineers, designers, data scientists, and product managers to develop new features and products.
  • Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
  • Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of the company.
  • Contribute to the design and architecture of the next generation of Stripe’s infrastructure, to meet the high growth needs of the company and customers for years to come.
  • Work alongside peer engineering teams, data scientists and strategy partners to design and implement critical systems that power financial decision-making while contributing to the growing team’s success.

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, plus six (6) years of experience in Software Development.

Must have six (6) years of experience with/in

  • Working across the stack and navigating codebases with different languages, including 2 of the following: Java, Ruby, Scala, Python, or SQL;
  • Tools including: Spark, IDE, and AWS;
  • Developing user-facing experiences and writing queries for analyzing experiment results;
  • Distributed computing or large-scale distributed systems; and
  • Cloud based services, including: gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS.

Salary: $173,000.00 - $259,600.00/yr.

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. IL37 #LI-DNI

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