Software Engineer, Payin

Job description

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 Organization Payments is at the core of Stripe’s mission to increase the GDP of the internet. We are expanding our payments footprint in India and we are looking for Backend Engineers to own the technical architecture behind our next generation of payment offerings in India. As part of the India Payments team, you will build on top of Stripe’s robust foundational platforms, driving complex integrations and contributing to the architectural evolution of the critical services that handle money movement every millisecond. You will engineer the entire horizontal payments stack, driving every phase of a transaction's journey: integrating with local payment rails, managing initiation and intelligent routing, ensuring reliable completion and automating reconciliation and payouts. Partnering with cross-functional engineering hubs globally, you will tackle high-stakes technical challenges requiring low-latency execution, strict transactional idempotency, zero-downtime migrations and resilient distributed state management at scale. If you thrive on taking ambiguous product mandates and turning them into fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems, you will feel right at home here. What You’ll Do (Core Responsibilities) • Architect and operate low-latency, fault-tolerant backend microservices that integrate with Indian payment methods • Map complex, India-specific payment flows into Stripe’s global, unified API platforms, ensuring a seamless integration experience for developers worldwide • Design highly reliable adapter layers that interact with domestic banking partners and payment networks, building systems that gracefully handle external API latency and asynchronous callbacks • Own end-to-end service health, implementing shadow rollouts, distributed tracing, automated failovers and proactive alerting for 99.99% uptime • Collaborate with Product, Regulatory/Legal, Risk and Partner Integration teams across global engineering hubs while delivering seamless developer-facing APIs • Mentor and empower engineers to contribute independently through ongoing technical guidance and actionable feedback Other Responsibilities • Independently scope, build and ship medium-to-large projects from ambiguous requirements to production • Build robust APIs that hide the extreme complexity of Indian payment rails behind simple, elegant developer experiences • Partner with product and data teams to proactively identify, size and solve the most impactful problems for our users • Engineer highly reliable, scalable infrastructure that consistently meets strict SLAs for all internal and external systems • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack with an eye towards improving maintainability over the long term • Improve engineering standards, tooling and processes • Accelerate team velocity through high-quality code reviews and architectural collaboration Who you are Minimum requirements • 7+ years of experience designing, implementing and operating large-scale, high-performance APIs and services • You have implemented server-side APIs in languages like Ruby, Java, or Go, working with document and relational datastores (especially Mongo and MySQL) • Empathetic, collaborative and user-first mindset in everything you build and have excellent oral and written communication • Experience proactively seeking feedback from users, teammates and subject matter experts • The ability to balance speed, complexity, and scope in service of user needs • Excellent oral and written communication <