61K–92K EUR / year
Backend Engineer, UI Platform
BackendHybrid — Barcelona, Spain
Published on 2026-10-27
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About this role
Build and operate backend services that power Stripe’s Dashboard, mobile apps, and other user interfaces. The role spans APIs, platform capabilities, architectural migrations, and improving reliability and performance on critical user paths.
About the company
Stripe provides payment infrastructure and financial tools that help businesses accept payments, manage subscriptions, and move money globally. It serves startups through large enterprises with APIs for online and in-person commerce.
The team
Sail Services, within Stripe’s UI Platform team.
Stack
GraphQLAPIs
What you'll do
- Own software projects end to end, from scoping and design through rollout and operation.
- Build reliable, scalable APIs and backend systems for Stripe user interfaces.
- Support incremental architecture migrations with automated validation and staged rollouts.
- Improve service reliability, observability, performance, and operability.
- Turn recurring product-team needs into reusable platform capabilities.
- Use AI-assisted development tools and contribute to reviews, documentation, and runbooks.
What we're looking for
- At least 2 years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience building and operating production systems.
- Strong backend fundamentals, including APIs, data storage, distributed systems, and production operations.
- Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development tools, including reviewing and validating generated code.
- Ability to independently scope and deliver open-ended projects with limited oversight.
- Strong debugging, testing, communication, and collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with backend-for-frontend systems, UI platforms, developer platforms, or shared infrastructure.
- Experience designing or integrating APIs, including GraphQL.
- Experience with event ingestion, feature flags, experimentation systems, or latency-sensitive services.
- Familiarity with caching, asynchronous systems, configuration, or data-consistency tradeoffs.
- Experience with migrations, shadow traffic, feature flags, or staged production rollouts.
Benefits
- Equity and/or company bonus may be included.
- Retirement plans, health benefits, and wellness stipends may be available.