Stripe
Mid
Build and debug full-stack payments infrastructure across Stripe's stack
This Stripe Software Engineer role (New York, Global Operations) designs and maintains APIs and services in Ruby, Scala, and Go, builds full-stack web applications with React/TypeScript on the frontend, engineers payments integrations with financial partners, and works with MongoDB, SQL, and Presto for data analysis — all requiring roughly 2 years of hands-on experience in each named area plus 1 year specifically in payment-processing reliability.
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What this interview tests
- Backend API/service design in Ruby, Scala, or Go
- Full-stack web app development with React/TypeScript
- Performance and latency tuning of backend systems
- Payments integration with external financial partner systems
- Data work with MongoDB and SQL/Presto
- Building and testing reliable payment-processing systems
Common question themes
Walk me through a backend service you built and later tuned for performance/latency
Describe a full-stack feature you shipped, from API design to the React frontend
Tell me about debugging a production issue that spanned multiple layers of the stack
How would you design a system to reliably store or process sensitive payment data
Describe an API you designed — what tradeoffs made it intuitive for its users
Tell me about a MongoDB schema or SQL/Presto query problem you solved for analysis
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