Backend engineer in localization infrastructure

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.

• Design and build internationalisation infrastructure that supports diverse content surfaces, including backend services, product interfaces, and written communications.
• Integrate localization into Stripe’s software-development and content-production workflows, enabling teams to ship translated experiences continuously and safely.
• Build and maintain integrations with translation-management systems, LLM services and external localization providers.
• Evolve Stripe’s existing production LLM capabilities to improve translation quality, market relevance, turnaround time, and operational efficiency.
• Develop automated quality checks and human-evaluation workflows that combine LLM-driven automation with expert linguistic judgment.
• Maintain a high bar for reliability through effective testing, monitoring, alerting, and operational processes.
• Own ambiguous, high-impact initiatives end to end—from research and experimentation through implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.

• Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
• Experience developing reliable infrastructure, platform, or backend-service solutions.
• Strong product judgment and a commitment to building high-quality user and developer experiences.
• Ability to own ambiguous work end to end and make progress through research, experimentation, and iteration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
• Будет плюсом: Experience building or operating production LLM or machine-learning systems; Experience evaluating LLM output or combining automated systems with expert human review; Familiarity with internationalisation, localization, translation, or content-management workflows; Experience with CI/CD systems, developer platforms, or workflow infrastructure; Backend engineering experience building services using programming languages such as Java, Ruby, or Go; Experience building internal platforms that ultimately support customer-facing products

• 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. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location.
• The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €61,400 - €92,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location.
• Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.