As a Product Backend Engineer at Dropbox, you will play a key role in transforming the infrastructure that powers our financial and commerce systems. You’ll join the Finance Data Engineering > Commerce Platform team, where you’ll help build the backend services and platforms that enable reliable, scalable, and future-ready financial reporting and commerce capabilities across Dropbox.
Your work will focus on designing and developing core backend systems from modernizing existing pipelines to building entirely new infrastructure that replaces legacy solutions. You’ll collaborate across engineering, finance, and data teams to ensure seamless integration with our governance, observability, and quality management tools.
This is not a maintenance role, you’ll be at the forefront of reimagining our commerce and financial infrastructure from the ground up. We’re investing in modern, cloud-native architectures and scalable platforms that will serve as the foundation for the next generation of financial products at Dropbox. If you're excited about shaping the future of commerce systems, driving technical innovation, and building resilient backend services that scale with a global business, this is the opportunity to make a lasting impact.
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- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional partners (Billing, Financial Data Engineering, etc.) to deliver reliable payments functionality.
- Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs powering financial transactions.
- Work with metrics and logging systems to ensure visibility and observability of the payment infrastructure.
- Owns end-to-end execution of moderately complex projects.
- Independently designs systems and proposes solutions that balance trade-offs.
- Regularly collaborates with other teams and helps guide junior engineers.
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements- 5+ years of software engineering or related industry experience.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
- Proven track record in identifying and delivering software solutions through a set of milestones spanning a specific product focus or a multi-component system
- Developed and shipped large-scale web applications with a user-centric mindset.
- Proficiency in building user-facing software and supporting systems and libraries for web and/or desktop platforms.
- Demonstrable track record managing, communicating, and collaborating with internal clients on data platform plans and capabilities
- Experience designing, building and maintaining data processing systems
- Experience working with data at significant scale and optimizing queries and pipelines
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