Role Description

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Compensation

Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Description

The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people. Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact. Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development. We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work. If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team. Areas of work include Machine Learning Engineers, Infrastructure Engineer, Product SWE Frontend and Backend, Mobile Software Engineers (iOS and Android), Engineering Manager, Data Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer, Technical Program Managers, Network Engineer, Datacenter Engineer, Technical Supply Chain Manager and more.

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.