Stripe
Senior
Build backend infrastructure for wallets, identity, and onchain systems at Privy (Stripe)
Privy (acquired by Stripe) is hiring a backend engineer with 8+ years of experience to build the wallet, identity, and onchain infrastructure that powers crypto products for customers like Ramp, Klarna, and Kraken. The interview focuses on platform/API design at scale, a security-first mindset, and comfort leading complex technical initiatives with high product ownership in a small, fast-moving team.
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What this interview tests
- Designing platform primitives/APIs used by other engineering teams
- Security-first design for wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure
- Balancing high-velocity iteration with production-scale reliability
- Acting as de facto PM for developer-facing API decisions
- Leading complex, ambiguous technical initiatives independently
Common question themes
Design an API/platform primitive for wallet or identity infrastructure that other teams would build on
How do you bring a security mindset into a design from the start, not as an afterthought?
Tell me about a time you had to make a product decision without a PM in the room
How do you balance shipping small iterations fast against long-term platform scalability?
Walk me through a distributed systems or data model challenge you led end to end
What's your experience with blockchain protocols or smart contract integration, if any?
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