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Backend / API Engineer, Radar

Stripe

N/A · US · 2+ years experience · Posted Oct 19, 2026

At a glance

Experience
2+ years experience
Location
N/A · US

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 role

  • As a software engineer on Radar, you will build products and infrastructure that help businesses understand and stop fraud and abuse.
  • Your work will span backend services, enterprise APIs, and user experiences that put sophisticated prevention capabilities into our customers' hands.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate reliable, low-latency services that detect and prevent fraud and abuse at scale
  • Design APIs and dashboard experiences that help businesses investigate threats, configure defenses, and understand how Radar protects them
  • Develop the shared platform and infrastructure that enable teams to build and launch new Radar capabilities
  • Work directly with users to understand emerging threats and turn those insights into broadly useful products
  • Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to bring new signals, models, and AI capabilities into production
  • Own projects end to end, from technical design and implementation through rollout, measurement, and iteration
  • Uphold a high bar for engineering quality, reliability, and product craft while moving quickly as threats evolve

Requirements

  • 2+ years of industry software engineering experience
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language, with experience building and maintaining production software
  • Ability to work across systems and technologies, learn unfamiliar codebases, and make thoughtful technical trade-offs
  • A rigorous approach to problem solving, including using data to investigate issues and evaluate whether a solution works
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across disciplines and contribute to your peers' success
  • An ownership mindset and comfort navigating ambiguity, taking initiative, and following through on user problems

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience building distributed systems or real-time services with demanding reliability and latency requirements
  • Experience building APIs, developer platforms, or intuitive user interfaces for complex workflows
  • Experience bringing ML or AI capabilities into production software
  • Experience working on fraud prevention, abuse prevention, risk, or security
  • Experience taking a product from an early idea to launch and iterating directly with customers

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Backend / API Engineer, Radar

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