[Remote] Backend / API Engineer, Radar

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stripe is hiring a Backend / API Engineer for Radar, its fraud and abuse prevention team. The role builds backend services, enterprise APIs, and platform infrastructure that help businesses detect and prevent fraud, investigate threats, and bring machine learning and AI capabilities into production.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• For remote locations (35 miles or more from one of Stripe’s offices), regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office; welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events.
• Equity may be included.
• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses may be included.
• 401(k) plan may be included.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits may be included.
• Wellness stipends may be included.

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