Stripe
Payments infrastructure with sophisticated fraud detection and data systems.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a mock API that randomly fails with 503 Service Unavailable, implement a robust HTTP client with exponential backoff and jitter.
#Networking
#Retry Logic
#Math
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Integrate with a mock fraud-detection API. Send transaction details, parse the risk score, and block transactions exceeding a threshold.
#HTTP Clients
#Business Logic
#JSON Parsing
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Fetch a list of charges from a mock API, handle pagination via 'starting_after' cursors, and return the total volume of successful charges.
#HTTP Clients
#Pagination
#JSON Parsing
Backend Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a script to synchronize a local SQLite database with a remote API using webhooks and a polling fallback mechanism.
#State Synchronization
#Databases
#Concurrency
#Error Handling
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a function to concurrently fetch data from multiple Stripe API endpoints, aggregate the results, and implement exponential backoff for 429 Too Many Requests errors.
#Concurrency
#Error Handling
#Network Requests
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a script to backfill missing currency conversion rates from an external API. The API has a strict rate limit of 10 requests per second.
#Rate Limiting
#Concurrency
#Error Handling
Full Stack Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Given a mock Stripe API client that returns paginated charges (using 'has_more' and 'starting_after'), write a function to fetch all charges for a customer and calculate the total revenue.
#Pagination
#API Integration
#Asynchronous Programming
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a script that fetches transaction data from a paginated Stripe API, applies a heuristic rule (e.g., amount > $10,000 and country != home_country), and returns flagged users.
#API
#Pagination
#JSON Parsing
Software Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a mock API endpoint that returns paginated JSON data of recent charges, write a script to fetch all pages, handle rate limits (HTTP 429), and return the top 5 merchants by total volume.
#HTTP Clients
#Pagination
#Error Handling
#Data Aggregation
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