Backend Engineer, Credit Decisions

Location: Chicago, IL

Department: Global Operations

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.

What you’ll do

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.

Who you are

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