About the role
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