Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience Platform

Our team owns open-source SDKs that reflect the Stripe API in seven different programming languages. A vast majority of server-side Stripe integrations are built using our open-source SDKs. Our team also owns an in-house code generation framework, which we use to generate not just the SDKs, but the code snippets in ...

We are dedicated to providing a world-class experience for developers using our SDKs. We influence how Stripe authors and releases APIs so that SDKs and documentation represent them in a user-friendly way. We want to collaborate with and help our friends in the Stripe community who build and maintain SDKs in program...

In this role, you'll have an opportunity to shape the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power over 80% of the payment volume at Stripe.

In this role, you'll have an opportunity to shape the experience of developers using Stripe SDKs that power over 80% of the payment volume at Stripe.
Be the Golang expert on the team, representing the needs of the Golang community and ensuring we build experiences that are idiomatic
Use your Node.js expertise to improve our code generation framework and work toward a future where we open source it to make it easier for third-party Stripe SDK owners to maintain their libraries
Collaborate with various Stripe teams to release their APIs in the SDKs and improve the efficiency of the release process
Help streamline the API authoring process at Stripe
Support our users reaching out to us on the open-source GitHub repositories for our SDKs
Add support for new language features in SDKs
Help lead the API design process at Stripe, providing guidance to product teams as they seek to produce powerful and intuitive abstractions that surface through our SDKs
Collaborate, mentor, and provide support to other team members

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.
6+ years in engineering across a wide range of products
3+ years of experience as a Golang software engineer
An interest in working with multiple programming languages
A passion for API design and developer experience
Experience in PHP and Ruby
Experience building libraries and/or SDKs
Knowledge of Open API spec and protobuf