Backend Engineer, UI Platform

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 team

The UI Platform team, known as Sail, builds the foundations behind Stripe’s Dashboard and many other user interfaces. Sail Services owns the systems that evaluate feature flags and experiments, ingest frontend analytics, and improve Dashboard load times for Stripe’s largest merchants.

We build backend-for-frontend capabilities that connect Stripe’s backend systems to its UI platform. This gives product teams a consistent way to build and operate user experiences without recreating the same infrastructure.

What you’ll do

As a Backend Engineer on the Sail Services team, you’ll help build and evolve the systems that power Stripe’s user interfaces. You’ll independently drive software projects from problem definition through production, working closely with other UI Platform engineers, product teams, and infrastructure partners. Your work will range from APIs and GraphQL integrations to edge systems, architectural migrations, and the tooling needed to operate them safely at scale.

Responsibilities

Take end-to-end ownership of software projects, aligning on priorities and then independently scoping problems and carrying solutions through design, implementation, testing, rollout, and operation
Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable APIs and backend systems that support Stripe’s Dashboard, mobile applications, and other user interfaces
Help modernize Stripe’s UI architecture through incremental migrations, automated validation, shadow traffic, and carefully controlled production rollouts
Improve the reliability, observability, performance, and operability of services on critical user paths
Partner with frontend, backend, and infrastructure engineers to understand their needs and turn recurring problems into reusable platform capabilities
Use AI-assisted and agentic development workflows to improve implementation, testing, validation, and delivery
Contribute thoughtful code reviews, technical discussions, documentation, and runbooks that improve the quality of the team’s work

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

Fluency in using AI-assisted and agentic development tools as part of day-to-day software engineering, including critically reviewing, validating, and improving generated code
2+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience, building, shipping, and operating production systems
Strong knowledge of backend technologies and infrastructure, including the fundamentals of APIs, data storage, distributed systems, and production operations
Ability to independently scope and deliver open-ended software projects, making practical technical and product tradeoffs with limited oversight
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with attention to testing, maintainability, reliability, and user impact
Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with frontend engineers, product engineers, and infrastructure partners

Preferred qualifications

* Experience building backend-for-frontend systems, UI platform services, developer platforms, or shared infrastructure
- Experience designing or integrating APIs, including GraphQL APIs
- Experience with high-throughput event ingestion, feature flag or experimentation systems, or other latency-sensitive platform services
- Familiarity with caching, asynchronous systems, configuration systems, or data-consistency tradeoffs
- Experience executing large migrations using automated validation, shadow traffic, feature flags, or staged rollouts
- Experience using data, developer feedback, or operational signals to improve a platform or developer-facing product

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €61,400 - €92,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.

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