Backend Engineer
StripeSan Francisco, CAremote$146K–$254KInfrastructurePosted 23d ago · Aug 22, 2026
Stripe is hiring a backend engineer to work on software engineering for payments infrastructure for internet businesses.
What you would own
- Design, build and operate services that carry production traffic.
- Raise the reliability and latency bar for the systems you own.
- Review designs and mentor engineers across the team.
Skills
GoPostgreSQLReactAWSTypeScriptRustgRPCTerraform
What Agraph knows about Stripe
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Employees
8.9K
-1.9% 90d
Open roles
214
-18% 30d
Remote share
41%
Activity score
79
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Hiring slowdown
Stripe engineering postings concentrated into fewer teams
Open engineering roles have narrowed to payments reliability and risk, with growth, internal tools and several platform teams no longer posting.
Narrowing rather than shrinking usually indicates a reallocation, not a downturn.
AnalysisHigh importance96