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. 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.
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.
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
Collaborate with Product, Regulatory/Legal, Risk and Partner Integration teams across global engineering hubs while delivering seamless developer-facing APIs
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 straightforward, elegant developer experiences




Partner with product and data teams to proactively identify, size and solve the most impactful problems for our users
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack with an eye towards improving maintainability over the long term
Accelerate team velocity through high-quality code reviews and architectural collaboration
8+ 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)
- Experience proactively seeking feedback from users, teammates and subject matter experts
- Experience building large-scale financial systems, payments infrastructure or working in the broader fintech industry is a plus

Experience building distributed systems or operating within a complex microservices architecture
Proficiency in Ruby, Java, or Go, with deep experience modeling data in relational and document databases (e.g., MySQL, Mongo)
Experience driving technical alignment across global, cross-functional teams

In-office expectations
Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

📌 Back End Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Stripe
📍 Bengaluru