Stripe

Stripe

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Backend Engineer, Privy

Posted Aug 5, 2026

Role at a glance

Salary
Not Disclosed
Location
United States NYC-Privy, United States
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Experience
8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale

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Role Summary

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This role designs and builds backend systems for Privy's wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure. The engineer develops platform primitives and APIs used across Privy and Stripe while improving the scalability, reliability, and performance of the core platform.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build backend systems that power wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure at scale
  • Create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to build faster
  • Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems
  • Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of the core platform
  • Help shape technical direction through high-leverage engineering work

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Qualifications

8+ years building and maintaining production systems at scale; modern API development; data models, database migrations, and infrastructure configuration; maintainable, well-tested, modular code; clear technical documentation; excellent written and verbal communication.

Required

  • 8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
  • An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
  • Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
  • An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation

Preferred

  • Experience in an API-driven business within payments, fintech, or crypto
  • Built or contributed to open-source developer tooling
  • Published work (open source code, talks, blog posts, etc.)
  • Experience working with blockchain protocols and designing or interacting with smart contracts
  • Experience in authentication, identity, or security

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Who we are

About Privy

Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails.

Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link. We get to solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers like Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo — powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives.

Learn more about Privy: Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone

About the team

Engineering at Privy is distinguished by:

  • High urgency: Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly. 
  • Product taste: Our customers are developers, and to build effective products for them requires technical knowledge - you will often be "the PM".
  • Security mindset: A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start.

In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers.

What you'll do

  • Design and build the backend systems that power wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure at scale
  • Create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to build faster
  • Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems
  • Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform
  • Help shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work

Who you are

Minimum requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
  • An understanding of modern API development best practices and design
  • Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
  • An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • A growth mindset, a constant curiosity, and fearlessness to dive into the unknown
  • An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience in an API-driven business within payments, fintech, or crypto
  • Built or contributed to open-source developer tooling
  • Published work (open source code, talks, blog posts, etc.)
  • Experience working with blockchain protocols and designing or interacting with smart contracts
  • Experience in authentication, identity, or security
Stripe

About the company

Stripe

Large Enterprise

Stripe is a leading financial technology company that provides a robust platform for online payment processing and ecommerce solutions. Founded in 2010, Stripe enables businesses of all sizes to accept payments, send payouts, and manage their online transactions seamlessly. With a focus on innovation and user experience, Stripe offers a range of APIs and tools that empower developers to integrate payment functionality quickly and efficiently. Trusted by millions of businesses worldwide, Stripe continues to shape the future of online commerce and financial services.

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