Backend Engineer, Payments & Risk

Toronto · Canada Locations · 2-12 years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 7, 2026

At a glance

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.

Stripe is seeking Backend engineers to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs.
Engineers will play a key role in extending the balance management platform and building out a new funds accessibility platform leveraged by enterprises and SMBs.

Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Mentor engineers to help them grow
Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
Strong coding skills in any programming language
Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)