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Backend Engineer, Credit Decisions
stripeChicago, IL July 24, 2026
Skills
awsdockergraphqljavakubernetespythonrubyscalasparksql
Job Description
<h2><strong>Who we are</strong></h2>
<h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2>
<h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end. </li>
<li>Collaborate with engineers, designers, data scientists, and product managers to develop new features and products. </li>
<li>Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter. </li>
<li>Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of the company. </li>
<li>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. </li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2>
<h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3>
<p> </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Must have six (6) years of experience with/in:</p>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>Working across the stack and navigating codebases with different languages, including 2 of the following: Java, Ruby, Scala, Python, or SQL;</li>
<li>Tools including: Spark, IDE, and AWS;</li>
<li>Developing user-facing experiences and writing queries for analyzing experiment results;</li>
<li>Distributed computing or large-scale distributed systems; and</li>
<li>Cloud based services, including: gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p>Salary: $173,000.00 - $259,600.00/yr.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>40 hrs/week</p>
<p>50% Telecommuting permitted.<strong> </strong></p>
<p>Multiple Positions Available. </p>
<p>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.<strong> </strong><strong>IL37</strong><strong> </strong><strong> #LI-DNI</strong></p>
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