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Backend Engineer, Payments & Risk
@ Stripe
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Stripe is hiring a Backend Engineer for its Payments and Risk organization to build and maintain APIs and large-scale systems that handle billions of money movement requests. The work includes extending a balance management platform, debugging production issues, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams in a distributed, hybrid setting. Requires 2 to 12+ years of industry software engineering experience.
Responsibilities:
- Scope, design, build and maintain APIs, services and large-scale systems
- Debug and solve critical production issues across the stack
- Mentor engineers to help them grow
- Collaborate with stakeholders to build features at large scale
- Collaborate in a distributed and hybrid team
Requirements summary:
- 2 to 12+ years of industry software engineering experience
- Strong coding skills in any programming language
- Strong collaboration skills across workstreams
- Ability to work autonomously and think entrepreneurially
- Interest in working as a generalist across technologies
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-07
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-29
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Full company description
Stripe builds programmable financial services. 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. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
- LinkedIn followers
- 1,286,676
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 14,284
- Reported office locations
- 354 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, California 94080, US
- 1 Wilton Park, Wilton Terrace, Dublin, County Dublin D02 FX04, IE
- 920 5th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98104, US
- 201 Bishopsgate, London, England EC2M 3NS, GB
- 10, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, Ile-de-France 75009, FR
- 89 Neil Rd, Central Business District, Singapore 088894, SG
- 1-5-8 Jingumae, Tokyo, Shibuya-ku 150-0001, JP
- 515 N State St, Chicago, Illinois 60610, US
- 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005, US
- Singel 542, Amsterdam, North Holland 1017, NL
- Avenida Paseo de la Reforma 296, Ciudad de Mexico, Colonia Juarez 06600, MX
- 222 Exhibition St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, AU
- Avenida Paulista 1374, Paulínia, São Paulo 13140-000, BR
- Church Street Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001, IN
- Business categories
- Finance
- InsurTech
- SaaS
- FinTech
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
- Mobile Payments
- Other recorded names
- Stripe
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 9,440,247,725
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Stripe builds programmable financial services. 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. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology, Information and Internet |
| Company size | 5,001-10,000 employees |
| Headquarters | South San Francisco, California |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2010 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 49 |
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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 Organization
Payments and Risk Sub-orgs within Payments and Risk: Link and OCS, Payments Acceptance, Risk
The Payments organization focuses on developing products and platforms that enable users to accept payments from customers efficiently. This includes building APIs for processing payments, enabling regional, non-card payment options, and extending Stripe's capabilities to make it easy for businesses to accept in-person payments. Optimized Checkout and Link teams work to create best-in-class checkout experiences that enhance customer satisfaction and drive merchant conversion rates. The Risk Engineering team develops products that minimize financial and regulatory risks while ensuring a seamless user experience, thereby safeguarding Stripe’s brand and financial stability.
Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.
What you’ll do
We’re looking for Backend engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You’ll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs alike. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams – from Infrastructure to Product – at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.
Responsibilities
- Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
- Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Mentor engineers to help them grow
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues
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
- 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
- Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
- Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
- Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
- Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)
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