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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.&nbsp;</li> <li>Collaborate with engineers, designers, data scientists, and product managers to develop new features and products.&nbsp;</li> <li>Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.&nbsp;</li> <li>Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of the company.&nbsp;</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.&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</p> <p>Must have six (6) years of experience with/in:</p> <p>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Multiple Positions Available.&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;#LI-DNI</strong></p>
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