Backend / API Engineer, Crypto

Stripe (View all Jobs)

SF, NYC, SEA, Remote

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Interview Process

1. Programming/debugging phone screen 2. On-site with your own laptop/setup and full access to internet. Interviews include systems design, 45 min practical coding question, integrating an API exercise, debugging, and talking with hiring manager about team alignment.

Programming Languages Mentioned

Java, Ruby


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 Crypto is scaling the economic infrastructure of the future; working to enable crypto native products for both established web2 businesses as well as rapidly growing web3 startups. As we embark on our mission to increase the GDP of the internet, we are building products that will enable creators and bleeding edge organizations of any scale to accept payments, move funds, and exchange fiat for crypto.  Stripe is creating faster, more secure, and more reliable infrastructures and products so that coin exchanges, NFT marketplaces, and blockchain researchers can focus on innovation..

What you'll do:

As a Backend / API Engineer on the team, you will design and build the core components that we need to support crypto use cases, and play a critical role in taking new products from zero to one. You will work across a full stack including building backend, payment and identity systems. Stripe is the financial plumbing for millions of online businesses and the work our Crypto team does will enable access to millions more. 

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain core data models and internal APIs
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
  • Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Who you are:

We are looking for engineers who know the cryptocurrency space better than we do and are invigorated by the opportunity to bring their existing expertise to benefit Stripe’s users. 

Minimum Requirements

  • At least five years of software engineering experience in large scale distributed systems
  • Experience in or willingness to code in Ruby, Java, Scala, and Go
  • Experience in building products or infrastructures within the cryptocurrency space, preferably at web scale. You have more than a passing interest in web3
  • An ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts

Preferred qualifications

  • An active collaborator with in the cryptocurrency and web3 communities
  • Three years or more in hands on development within the crypto/blockchain space in either a startup or enterprise scoped organization
  • Knowledge across multiple web3 technologies. From the the network layer to defi applications; you've seen and have opinions on how to build a full stack

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