Full Stack Engineer
Stripe
- Location
- Canada
- Job Type
- full-time
- Salary
- CA$135,200 - CA$258,000
- Posted
- October 12, 2025
Job Description
About Stripe
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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the Organization
Developer Experience and Product Platform (DEeP) Sub-orgs within DEeP: Merchant Experience, Developer Platform, Organizations and Auth Platform (OAP), Growth Platform
Stripe’s DEeP organization empowers all of Stripe's products with a shared product platform that helps with rapidly delivering high-quality, cross-product experiences across our UI and API surfaces. It focuses on providing a consistent and scalable developer experience that any developer (both internal and external) can leverage to accelerate a merchant’s ability to create value using Stripe.
Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here.
What you’ll do
We’re looking for Fullstack engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users, regardless of whether they’re an end user, developer, or partner.
Responsibilities
- Ensure our platforms are reliable, scalable, secure, and extensible
- Shape future-proof interfaces that are easy to build with
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Help drive sound technical decision making and lead technical conversations with other teams across Stripe
- Debug production issues across services and various levels of the tech stack
Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops)
- Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
- Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
- Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Hybrid work at Stripe
This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).
In-office expectations
Working remotely at Stripe
Pay and benefits
The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is CA$135,200 - CA$258,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.
🎯 Who is this job for?
This role is ideal for a Mid to Senior Fullstack Engineer (2–12+ years experience) with strong programming skills, regardless of specific language. Best suited for those experienced in building scalable platforms, debugging across the stack, and collaborating across teams. Ideal for engineers who thrive in high-autonomy environments and enjoy shaping developer experience and internal tooling at scale.
💬 Potential Interview Questions
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How do you ensure scalability and reliability in a platform used by both internal and external developers?
I focus on modular architecture, load balancing, rate limiting, health checks, and using scalable infrastructure with automated recovery to ensure consistent performance and availability. -
Describe your experience building fullstack applications that support both API and UI layers.
I’ve built applications using React and RESTful APIs with robust backend services in Node.js or Python, ensuring seamless integration, data validation, and consistent user experience. -
How do you manage and monitor production issues across the stack?
I use tools like Datadog, Sentry, and CloudWatch for logging and metrics, implement alerts, and practice structured debugging with clear rollback strategies. -
What approach do you take when defining future-proof interfaces or APIs?
I prioritize clear versioning, backward compatibility, consistent naming, and comprehensive documentation, and ensure stakeholder alignment before implementation. -
How do you balance technical debt with business priorities in fast-paced environments?
I advocate for incremental improvements, aligning refactoring with feature work, and communicating long-term trade-offs clearly with product and leadership. -
How do you handle authentication and authorization in multi-tenant platforms?
I use role-based or attribute-based access control, secure token management (OAuth2/JWT), and tenant-aware data segregation at every layer. -
What’s your experience with designing extensible developer platforms or SDKs?
I build SDKs and APIs with clear contracts, documentation, and hooks for customization, prioritizing stability and ease of integration across different tech stacks. -
Describe a situation where you led technical decision-making across teams.
I led a cross-functional initiative to unify auth across services by evaluating trade-offs, aligning stakeholders, documenting proposals, and guiding implementation. -
What tools or practices do you use to ensure code quality and team-wide consistency?
I enforce code reviews, automated tests, linting, formatting tools, CI/CD pipelines, and shared documentation of engineering standards. -
How do you contribute to improving the developer experience internally?
I create reusable components, internal documentation, CLI tools, templates, and reduce friction in development workflows through continuous feedback and automation.
📋 Job Summary
Join Stripe as a Full Stack Engineer on the Developer Experience & Product Platform team and help shape the infrastructure powering millions of businesses worldwide. You’ll build scalable, secure platforms and UIs used across Stripe’s global ecosystem, working with modern tech in a remote (Canada) or hybrid (Toronto) setup. Stripe offers a CA$135K–$258K salary range, plus equity, bonuses, and top-tier benefits. If you're a strong collaborator who thrives on autonomy and is excited by high-impact engineering, this is your chance to grow with one of tech’s most influential companies.