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89,000+ live jobsBackend Engineer, Internationalisation
On-site in Barcelona·Added yesterday (last checked 6 Nov)
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- Work mode
- On-site, Barcelona
- English
- Required
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Skills
Nice to have
Requirements
What we're looking for
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.
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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.
The role
You will design, implement, and maintain Stripe's internationalisation platform at scale, including the developer and user experiences around it. You'll help teams continuously localize their products while improving the quality, speed, reliability, and efficiency of Stripe's localization processes.
This role combines backend and platform engineering with emerging LLM technology. Depending on the project, you may build end-to-end functionality for internal customers, evolve production LLM systems, develop quality-evaluation capabilities, improve platform reliability and observability, or lead migrations from legacy localization infrastructure.
What you'll do
- 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.
Hiring process
3 steps2 interviewsa task to doa few weeks for some roles, longer for others in all
Recruiter screen
With a recruiter
Technical or skills-based assessment
Interviews with the team
With the hiring team
A series of interviews with the team you would be joining.
- Stripe says it tries to work quickly and give clear feedback at every stage.
About Stripe
Stripe is a global financial infrastructure and payments platform company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Founded in 2010, the company provides a suite of APIs and software tools that enable businesses of all sizes to accept payments, manage subscriptions, and handle complex online commerce. Stripe processes billions of dollars in transactions annually and serves millions of businesses worldwide, from startups to large enterprises like Amazon, Google, and Salesforce.
Stripe has a significant presence in Spain, with offices in Madrid and Barcelona serving as key hubs for its Iberian market operations. The company is known for its strong engineering culture, high technical bar, and a work environment that attracts international talent. For international professionals, Stripe offers a highly collaborative, remote-friendly environment with competitive compensation and a strong focus on career growth, making it an attractive destination for those looking to work on cutting-edge financial technology in a European hub.
- Industry
- Fintech
- Founded
- 2010
- Employees
- 5,000–10,000
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- In Spain
- Madrid
Good to know if you are moving
- Stripe is a remote-first company, allowing employees to work from anywhere in Spain, with a strong hub in Madrid.
- The company offers a comprehensive relocation package for international hires, including visa sponsorship and assistance with Spanish bureaucracy.
- Stripe's compensation is highly competitive, with strong equity packages and a transparent pay formula.
- The company has a strong engineering culture with a high bar for technical excellence, making it a great fit for senior engineers.
- Stripe's product suite is used by millions of businesses, offering exposure to massive scale and complex technical challenges.
In their own words
About the company & team
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.
The Internationalisation team builds the platform that helps Stripe products work naturally across languages and markets. We create and operate the infrastructure that enables Stripe teams to localize product interfaces, services, and written communications while delivering consistent, high-quality experiences to users around the world.
We work closely with our sister Localization team and its language experts, as well as with product and service engineering teams integrating localized content. Together, we combine engineering, automation, and linguistic expertise to help Stripe build products that feel native to each market.
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