Backend / API Engineer, Billing
Role summary
Stripe is seeking a Backend / API Engineer for its Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) team, focusing on Billing products. This role involves designing, building, testing, and shipping high-quality code for large-scale distributed systems. The engineer will work on critical internal and external features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and debug production issues. The ideal candidate has experience in backend software development, distributed systems, and API development, with proficiency in languages like Go, Java, or C/C++. Familiarity with event-driven architectures and billing systems is preferred. This is a full-time role with significant autonomy and opportunity for impact.
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 Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) team at Stripe is building a modern, revenue-focused, financial management platform for fast-growing, digital-native companies.
Hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and types use Stripe Billing to collect revenue for recurring and one-time payments across a variety of different pricing models—from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, delivering Usage-Based Billing, and providing recovery and retention tools to prevent customer churn.
What you'll do
As an engineer on the team, you'll be responsible for shaping and building a suite of products that let our users model and operate their business more efficiently. You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship code every day. In this cross-functional role, you'll collaborate with experts in infrastructure, security, design, and operations to build business-critical internal and external features that power Stripe users around the world.
Responsibilities
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
Preferred qualifications
Sample Stripe interview questions
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Design a rate limiter
system designmedium - 2
Design a Distributed LRU Cache
system designmedium - 3
Design an application performance monitoring system
system designmedium - 4
Design a traffic monitoring and routing system for real-time data.
system designmedium - 5
Design a real-time system for analyzing user interactions on websites.
system designmedium
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